You could submit the form using ajax and get a response to use it on your page without need of reloading the hole page, serialize will output something like inputname=inputvalue&inputname2=inputvalue2 ... pefect to use when using an ajax request in php or get, as you wish. You can perfom an ajax request using the ajax function, http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/
Taken from the jquery api doc:
$.ajax({
type: "POST", // you can use POST or GET method depending on how you will be using the vars on php
url: "some.php", // the url to perform the ajax request
data: "name=John&location=Boston", // the data, as serialize outputs the form data like that, you can use the data outputed by serializing your form
success: function(msg){ // what to do with the php output
alert( "Data Saved: " + msg );
}
});
In php, you can use the vars, if using post, with $_POST['inputname'] and each one will output the input value