Question

This is the second time I ask this question because in my first try I was totally misunderstood.

php, jQuery, Lightbox, Ajax GET and POST issue

What I am trying to achieve is simply to get the selected value from a dropdown list and send that by an ajax function to a php file that will run the necessary functions. So let’s say I select Africa/Accra as timezone, onclick the ajax function is called and that will pass the data to the php file that will do the rest. No page refresh, nothing, just getting the data and send that with ajax. Is this possible? please to better understand me see my first try (link above).
I am not an experienced PHP programmer. I do not know about anything of Ajax, so propably I have just done everything wrong..so forgive me. Thanks

Answer 1

this is what you want:

$("#submitButton").click(function(){
    var selectedValue = $("#IdOfDropdown").val();
    $.get("test.php", { timezone: selectedValue } , function(data){
     alert("Data Loaded: " + data);
    });
    return false;
});

You can also do a post instead of a get, here is a reference with a bunch of jquery ajax stuff
http://api.jquery.com/category/ajax/