TextBox Search string manipulation

Answer 1

http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.forms.php

Should give u a good walkthrough on getting your input and beginning to use it.

Answer 2

Hello,

You can use jQuery to get the element value, I presume it's a input of type="text", right? Ok, you can do then (jquery snippet):

the input:

<input type="text" id="txt">

the button

<input type="submit" id="btn">

the jquery for calling a page:

$(document).ready(function(){
   //Add the calling to the click event of the button
   $("#btn").click(function(){
                 $.ajax(
                 {
                  type: "POST",
                  url: "callingPage.php",
                  data: "param1=" + $("#txt").val(),
                  start: $("#result").html("Doing the magic..."),
                  success: function(res)
                    {
                        showResults(res);
                    }
                 });
                 return false;

   });
}
);

You can see that $ajax call the page and pass parameters --the txt value to it by POST, with start option you can show some progress image or message and success defines a callback function to show the results.

Hope it helps.

Sebastian