I want to create a javascript popup box that contains text fields. I want to be able to style this box - using CSS - and I want the textfield entries to be Inserted into a MySQL database. Is this possible?
I would be familiar with doing this through web forms and server side scripting but I need it to be a bit more client side this time to make things seem a bit faster. I am thinking I may need to learn some AJAX but any pointers would be a help.
GF
You can't connect to a database with client-side javascript. Ajax will help you make seamless calls back to the server without refreshing pages, but you will need to have a server side component to return something useful back to your javascript.
As far as styling your forms with CSS, that part is doable.
Best way to do this would be to "popup" a new window which points to a file with the AJAX calls, the form, and the styling.
You don't need to learn that much Javascript, to be completely honest. You could simply create a small HTML form on your page, and display it as a popup. You could either have it send the data to your server-side script via the form's natural submit, or you could pass that information asynchronously.
jQueryUI has an example of something very similar: http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/#modal-form