Posting data back to the same page

[adamata]

OK, I am sure its an easy one but I have been staring at it for a while.

I have a simple HTML page with a table used to create the main "site".

I have a database with 7 fields, and works fine. I have ny queries built and they work great. I can get the data out of my database (using 2 different drop down lists and text searches) and display in the format I want but here is where I am stumped.

I want to use these search button to fill in the contents of a cell in the main table.

IE, there is a header tot he table, a left hand column (menu, etc) and in that column there is two possible searches. clicking teh search button on either should return the data to the area to the right of the column.

Pretty simple, right?

I am stumped. I have always just called a differnt page and sent the data to it. How do I do this?

Just a pointer in the right direction would help.

Thanks!

-Tony

[dalecosp]

I am stumped. I have always just called a differnt page and sent the data to it.

Which is the nature of server-side programming.

If you want to do this with only PHP, then the search button points an HTML form to the current page, and you have some conditional processing at the top that will get the results into a printable format prior to the HTML table code.

If you want this to happen without a page load, you have to use a client-side technology such as Javascript (AJAX actually comes to mind).