call data without refresh

Question

Hi all,,, I am trying to do a small thing, any 1 help me, I really appricciate... I have a drop down menu,I want when I select the value, it will call the related data, which I am access with php+mysql, I dont want to jump to other page and show

Answer 1

http://api.jquery.com/category/ajax/

Answer 2

html

<select id="select1" size="1">
   <option value="1">value 1</option>
</select> 

jQuery

$(document).ready(function(){
  $('#select1').change(function(){
   var url;
   if (this.value == 1) {
       url = 'sample1.php'
   } else if (this.value == 2) {
       url = 'sample2.php'
   } else {
       url = 'sample3.php'
   }
   var data = {'id': this.value }
   $.ajax({
      method: 'get',
      data: data,
      url: url,
      success: function(result){
         alert(result);
      }
   });
  });
})

php sample.php

<?php 

   if ($_GET['id']) {
      // do some MySql stuff....
      echo 'some result';
   }
?>

something like that... ;)