Thanks Walter - the bit I wasn't clear about was how to send the form
contents to the php script which connects to the MySQL database.
However the light has dawned!
Using
<d><input type='button' onclick='ajaxFunction()' value='Send your
figures' /></td>
to get the ajax vode going and
var chord1 = document.getElementById('chord1').value etc and
var queryString = "?chord1=" + chord1 etc
for the
jaxRequest.open("GET", "process.php" + queryString, true);
does the trick.
Cheers
Geoff
On Jan 26, 5:29 pm, Walter Lee Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2008, at 2:17 AM, geoffcox wrote:
>
> > I have only just found out about scriptoculous and am trying to see
> > how to use it to update a MySQL database.
>
> JavaScript, by itself (i.e.: Scriptaculous) is never going anywhere
> near MySQL. But if you have an application server or CGI somewhere in
> between, then that is where you would get your database in line with
> your JavaScript.
>
> So in PHP, you could use native functions, or a framework, or
> something in-between, like an ORM wrapper.
>
> In Ruby, you could obviously use Rails or write something much
> simpler in Ruby using the CGI libraries.
>
> No matter which application server you use, you will be posting a
> form to the Web server, which will intercept that request and
> redirect it through your app server and then that layer will talk to
> the database.
>
> Walter
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