how to read data from text field using AJAX and send it to php? I want to do that in a single form window with out navigating to other form.
Instead of having a submit button it would be awesome if we had live search.
The data i read is fetched from database..
Can any one tell me which are good tutorials to find these Ajax stuff?

//what i have done so far
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function showUser(str)
{
if (str=="")
{
 document.getElementById("txtHint").innerHTML="";
return;
}
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
 {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
 xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest开发者_如何学JAVA();
 }
 else
 {// code for IE6, IE5
  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
{
if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
{
document.getElementById("txtHint").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
}
}
xmlhttp.open("GET","getuser.php?q="+str,true);
xmlhttp.send();
 }
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="txtHint"><b>ID info will be listed here.</b></div>
</body>
</html> 
and PHP file something like this
 <?php
$q=$_GET["q"];
Connect to DB and select DB
 $value = $_POST[''];// value from text field
$sql="SELECT * FROM parentid WHERE id = '$value'";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
echo "<table border='1'>
<tr>
<th>Title</th>
<th>number</th>
<th>abc</th>
<th>institution</th>
 </tr>";
 while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
   {
   echo "<tr>";
  echo "<td>" . $row['title'] . "</td>";
 echo "<td>" . $row['number'] . "</td>";
 echo "<td>" . $row['abc'] . "</td>";
 echo "<td>" . $row['institution'] . "</td>";
  echo "</tr>";
  }
  echo "</table>";
 mysql_close($link);
?> 
consider using jQuery
then your code might look something like
<script>
    $('#txtHint').change(function(){
       $.get('getuser.php?q=' + $('#txtHint').val(), function() { /* maybe do something here? */ });
    });
</script>
then the php could be
<?php
$q=$_GET["q"];
//Connect to DB and select DB
$sql="SELECT * FROM parentid WHERE id = '$q'";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
echo "<table border='1'>
<tr>
<th>Title</th>
<th>number</th>
<th>abc</th>
<th>institution</th>
 </tr>";
 while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
   {
   echo "<tr>";
  echo "<td>" . $row['title'] . "</td>";
 echo "<td>" . $row['number'] . "</td>";
 echo "<td>" . $row['abc'] . "</td>";
 echo "<td>" . $row['institution'] . "</td>";
  echo "</tr>";
  }
  echo "</table>";
 mysql_close($link);
?> 
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
 加载中,请稍侯......
      
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