Creating a Submit Button in PHP/jQuery/AJAX Autosuggest search

[slaterino]

Hi,

I am having my first foray into the world of AJAX and Javascript and have created an Autosuggest search page. However, I want to have a submit button that will list all database entreies that match the search query and I can't work out what the best way to do this! Would it be using a input button and some kind of onClick fucntion? If so, does anyone know what the onClick function would be in jQuery? Would I need to create some new script for this? If anyone can give me any guidance on this I will be eternally grateful. Here is the code:

 

<?php
$db = new mysqli('128.0.0.1', 'asad' ,'asad', 'asad');
if(!$db) {
	echo 'ERROR: Could not connect to the database.';
} else {
	if(isset($_POST['queryString'])) {
		$queryString = $db->real_escape_string($_POST['queryString']);

		if(strlen($queryString) >0) {

			$query = $db->query("SELECT DISTINCT OrgType FROM Contacts WHERE OrgType LIKE '$queryString%' LIMIT 10");
			if($query) {

				while ($result = $query ->fetch_object()) {

         			echo '<li onClick="fill(\''.$result->OrgType.'\');">'.$result->OrgType.'</li>';
         		}
			} else {
				echo 'ERROR: There was a problem with the query.';
			}
		} else {
		} 
	} else {
		echo 'There should be no direct access to this script!';
	}
}
?>

[haku]

jquery onclick = click()

 

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