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    copied!<p>I want to create an auto refresh table whenever I submitted the form below using jQuery Ajax.</p> <p><strong>Here is my form</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;form id="submitDataToElection"&gt; &lt;table border="0"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;label for="electionName"&gt;Election Name:&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="electionName" id="electionName" spellcheck="true" required&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;label for="electionDate"&gt;Election Date:&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="electionDate" id="electionDate" required&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input name="Reset" type="reset" value="Reset" id="resetInAddElection"&gt;&lt;input type="submit" value="Submit" id="submitInAddElection"&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>The Form's jQuery</strong></p> <pre><code>$("#submitDataToElection").submit(function(event) { $("#resetInAddElection, #submitInAddElection").attr("disabled",true); event.preventDefault(); var values = $(this).serialize(); $.ajax({ url: "storeDataToElection.php", type: "post", data: values, success: function(data){ $('#addElection').dialog('close'); alert(data); $("#resetInAddElection, #submitInAddElection").attr("disabled",false); $("#electionName,#electionDate").val(""); $("#electionName").focus(); }, error:function(data){ $("#resetInAddElection, #submitInAddElection").attr("disabled",false); alert("failure"); } }); }); </code></pre> <p><strong>here is the code for storeDataToElection.php</strong></p> <pre><code>mysql_connect("localhost", "root", ""); mysql_select_db("automated_election"); $name = $_POST['electionName']; $date = $_POST['electionDate']; mysql_query("UPDATE election SET is_active = 'no' WHERE is_active = 'yes'")or die(mysql_error()); $insert = mysql_query("INSERT INTO election (election_name , election_date , is_active) VALUES('$name', '$date', 'yes')"); if(!$insert) die(mysql_error()); else die("Success"); </code></pre> <p><strong>Here is the table I want to auto-refresh</strong></p> <pre><code>$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM election WHERE is_active = 'yes'"); echo '&lt;hr&gt;&lt;table style="font-size:14px;" id="viewElectionTable"&gt;'; while ($data = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { $date = explode("-",$data['election_date']); switch($date[1]){ case 1: $month = "January"; break; case 2: $month = "February"; break; case 3: $month = "March"; break; case 4: $month = "April"; break; case 5: $month = "May"; break; case 6: $month = "June"; break; case 7: $month = "July"; break; case 8: $month = "August"; break; case 9: $month = "September"; break; case 10: $month = "October"; break; case 11: $month = "November"; break; case 12: $month = "December"; break; } echo '&lt;tr&gt;'; echo "&lt;td&gt;Election Name: &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;".$data['election_name'].'&lt;/td&gt;'; echo '&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;'; echo "&lt;td&gt;Election Date: &amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;".$month." ".$date[2].", ".$date[0].'&lt;/td&gt;'; echo '&lt;/tr&gt;'; } echo '&lt;/table&gt;&lt;hr&gt;'; </code></pre>
 

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