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    <p>My question is rather lengthy, so I'll get right to it. I have a search engine set up that sends data (GET method) to a php script which queries a MySQL database and then displays the results. You can view the project, to get a better understanding, here: <a href="http://www.quinterest.org/testcategory/" rel="nofollow">http://www.quinterest.org/testcategory/</a></p> <p>The form consist of a search box as well as a multiple select option that narrow the search.</p> <p>Everything thing works wonderfully, but there is one thing I would like to change and I don't know how. If someone could explain, in detail, what I need to do to be able to show the results (I figure it will be in a div written in the HTML?) from the query on the same page as the original form without the need to refresh the page?</p> <p>If you would like an example, here is one: <a href="http://quizbowldb.com/search" rel="nofollow">http://quizbowldb.com/search</a> The search stays on the same page.</p> <p>P.S. I know the mysql_ functions are outdated. Please don't harass me. I'm all very new to this still and the mysql_ functions are simple, easy and good enough for what I need. When I get further programming experience (I'm still in middle school), I may convert it to PDO or MySQLi.</p> <p><strong>HTML Form:</strong></p> <pre><code> &lt;form action='search.php' method='GET' class="form-search"&gt; &lt;input type='text' placeholder="What would you like to learn about?" class="input-xxlarge search-query" id="inputInfo" name='search'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt; &lt;input type='submit' class="btn btn-large btn-primary" name='submit' value='Search'&gt;&lt;/br&gt; &lt;select multiple="multiple" name='category[]'&gt; &lt;option value="%"&gt;All&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;Literature&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;History&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;Science&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;Fine Arts&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;Trash&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;Mythology&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;Phylosophy&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;Social Science&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;Religion&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;Geography&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>search.php</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $button = $_GET ['submit']; $search = $_GET ['search']; print $search; //validating search term length and connecting to db if(strlen($search)&lt;=1) echo "Search term too short"; else{ echo "You searched for &lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;$search&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and "; mysql_connect("fake","fake","fake"); mysql_select_db("quinterestdb");} //validating search term for protection; if statement to avoid errors being displayed if (strlen($search)&gt;1){ mysql_real_escape_string($search);} //exploding search with multiple words $search_exploded = explode (" ", $search); //creates array of all terms in search foreach($search_exploded as $search_each) //loops through array { $x++; if($x==1) $construct .="Answer LIKE '%$search_each%'"; //if only one value in array else $construct .="AND Answer LIKE '%$search_each%'"; //for each multiple value in array } $cat = $_GET ['category']; //preparing array (multiple choices) if (is_array($cat)) { foreach($cat as $val) // { if($val=="%") //if no category is selected continue; else //split array choices (separated by ' and ,) $comma_separated = implode("','", $cat); $newvar = "AND Category IN('$comma_separated')"; //if category is chosen } } //ignore for now $constructs ="SELECT * FROM tossupsdb WHERE $construct $newvar"; //completed search query //quering the database; if statement to avoid errors being displayed if (strlen($search)&gt;1){ $run = mysql_query($constructs);} print "$constructs"; //ignore for now //number of results found; if statement to avoid errors being displayed if (strlen($search)&gt;1){ $foundnum = mysql_num_rows($run);} if ($foundnum==0) echo "Sorry, there are no matching result for &lt;b&gt;$search&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;1. Try more general words. for example: If you want to search 'how to create a website' then use general keyword like 'create' 'website'&lt;/br&gt;2. Try different words with similar meaning&lt;/br&gt;3. Please check your spelling"; else { echo " &lt;span class='badge badge-info'&gt; $foundnum &lt;/span&gt; results were found:&lt;hr size='5'&gt;"; $per_page = 25; //preparing for pagination; results that appear per page $start = $_POST['start']; //where to start results on page $max_pages = ceil($foundnum / $per_page); //number of pages there will be if(!$start) //starting at 0 $start=0; $getquery = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tossupsdb WHERE $construct $newvar LIMIT $start, $per_page"); while($runrows = mysql_fetch_array($getquery)) //fetching results { $answer = $runrows ['Answer']; //obtaining individual data from database $category = $runrows ['Category']; //obtaining individual data from database $num = $runrows ['Question #']; //obtaining individual data from database $difficulty = $runrows ['Difficulty']; //obtaining individual data from database $question = $runrows ['Question']; //obtaining individual data from database $round = $runrows ['Round']; //obtaining individual data from database $tournament = $runrows ['Tournament']; //obtaining individual data from database $year = $runrows ['Year']; //obtaining individual data from database //what will be displayed on the results page echo "&lt;div class='alert alert-info' style='border-radius: 20px'&gt;&lt;div style='padding: 10px'&gt; &lt;span class='label label-info' font-size='30px'&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tournament | Year | Round | Question # | Category&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;b&gt;$tournament |&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;$year |&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;$round |&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;$num |&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;$category&lt;/b&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Question:&lt;/em&gt; $question&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class='alert alert-info'&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ANSWER:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; $answer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt; "; } //Pagination Starts echo "&lt;center&gt;"; $prev = $start - $per_page; $next = $start + $per_page; $adjacents = 3; $last = $max_pages - 1; if($max_pages &gt; 1) { //previous button if (!($start&lt;=0)) echo " &lt;a class='btn btn-primary btn-large' href='search.php?search=$search&amp;submit=Search+source+code&amp;start=$prev'&gt;Prev&lt;/a&gt; "; //pages if ($max_pages &lt; 7 + ($adjacents * 2)) //not enough pages to bother breaking it up { $i = 0; for ($counter = 1; $counter &lt;= $max_pages; $counter++) { if ($i == $start){ echo " &lt;a class='btn' href='search.php?search=$search&amp;submit=Search+source+code&amp;start=$i'&gt;&lt;b&gt;$counter&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; "; } else { echo " &lt;a class='btn' href='search.php?search=$search&amp;submit=Search+source+code&amp;start=$i'&gt;$counter&lt;/a&gt; "; } $i = $i + $per_page; } } elseif($max_pages &gt; 5 + ($adjacents * 2)) //enough pages to hide some { //close to beginning; only hide later pages if(($start/$per_page) &lt; 1 + ($adjacents * 2)) { $i = 0; for ($counter = 1; $counter &lt; 4 + ($adjacents * 2); $counter++) { if ($i == $start){ echo " &lt;a class='btn' href='search.php?search=$search&amp;submit=Search+source+code&amp;start=$i'&gt;&lt;b&gt;$counter&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; "; } else { echo " &lt;a class='btn' href='search.php?search=$search&amp;submit=Search+source+code&amp;start=$i'&gt;$counter&lt;/a&gt; "; } $i = $i + $per_page; } } //in middle; hide some front and some back elseif($max_pages - ($adjacents * 2) &gt; ($start / $per_page) &amp;&amp; ($start / $per_page) &gt; ($adjacents * 2)) { echo " &lt;a class='btn' href='search.php?search=$search&amp;submit=Search+source+code&amp;start=0'&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; "; echo " &lt;a class='btn' href='search.php?search=$search&amp;submit=Search+source+code&amp;start=$per_page'&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; .... "; $i = $start; for ($counter = ($start/$per_page)+1; $counter &lt; ($start / $per_page) + $adjacents + 2; $counter++) { if ($i == $start){ echo " &lt;a class='btn' href='search.php?search=$search&amp;submit=Search+source+code&amp;start=$i'&gt;&lt;b&gt;$counter&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; "; } else { echo " &lt;a class='btn' href='search.php?search=$search&amp;submit=Search+source+code&amp;start=$i'&gt;$counter&lt;/a&gt; "; } $i = $i + $per_page; } } //close to end; only hide early pages else { echo " &lt;a class='btn' href='search.php?search=$search&amp;submit=Search+source+code&amp;start=0'&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; "; echo " &lt;a class='btn' href='search.php?search=$search&amp;submit=Search+source+code&amp;start=$per_page'&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; .... "; $i = $start; for ($counter = ($start / $per_page) + 1; $counter &lt;= $max_pages; $counter++) { if ($i == $start){ echo " &lt;a class='btn' href='search.php?search=$search&amp;submit=Search+source+code&amp;start=$i'&gt;&lt;b&gt;$counter&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; "; } else { echo " &lt;a class='btn' href='search.php?search=$search&amp;submit=Search+source+code&amp;start=$i'&gt;$counter&lt;/a&gt; "; } $i = $i + $per_page; } } } //next button if (!($start &gt;=$foundnum-$per_page)) echo " &lt;a class='btn btn-primary btn-large' href='search.php?search=$search&amp;submit=Search+source+code&amp;start=$next'&gt;Next&lt;/a&gt; "; } echo "&lt;/center&gt;"; } ?&gt; </code></pre>
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    1. COIt's worth noting that the `mysqli_*` functions aren't really all that different than the `mysql_*` functions (at the API level), which is one reason so many of us are adamant about not using deprecated libraries...
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    2. COThe only way to avoid a "page refresh" is via JavaScript. How comfortable are you with scripting?
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