The PHP page called by the JavaScript, is called "getuser.php".
The PHP script runs an SQL query against a MySQL database, and returns the result as HTML:
< ?php
$q=$_GET["q"];
$con = mysql_connect('localhost', 'peter', 'abc123');
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db("ajax_demo", $con);
$sql="SELECT * FROM user WHERE id = '".$q."'";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
echo "
<>
<>Firstname< /th >
<>Lastname< /th >
<>Age
<>Hometown< /th >
<>Job< /th >
< /tr >";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<>";
echo "<>" . $row['FirstName'] . "< / td >";
echo "<>" . $row['LastName'] . "< / td >";
echo "<>" . $row['Age'] . "< / td >";
echo "<>" . $row['Hometown'] . "< / td >";
echo "<>" . $row['Job'] . "< / td >";
echo "< / tr >";
}
echo "< / table >";
mysql_close($con);
? > When the query is sent from the JavaScript to the PHP page, the following happens: 1. PHP opens a connection to a MySQL server 2. The correct person is found 3. An HTML table is created, and filled with data, and sent back to the "txtHint" placeholder
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