return query results without page refresh

[cjg]

I have a php page from which I want to send a MySQL query from a javascript function and return the results into the same or another javascript function and display in a <div layer etc ... without visibly refreshing the page.

I have considered putting the query function in a 'side frame' page and then pushing the results back into the main window but can't decide if this is the best or only way to do it neatly.

I have seen this in asp in an image library where the details of an image are looked up in a database and displayed in a text box without any refresh.

Any help and advice much appreciated.😕

[Elena_Mitovska]

Query is processed on server , so to you must load php file on server to get results of SQL quesry. If you don't want to refresh the page, the only way as I see is to load that php file for processing query in <iframe>
document.frame_name.src="query.php"
query results of php file you can show in div, and using innerHTML you can display results from div to yuor page, page will not be refreshed. <iframe> is invisible on page (<iframe style="display:'none'")