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    <p>I have a form containing a textarea for inputing text into. The form also contains a submit button. After pressing the submit button it posts the text within the textarea into my php document. Within my php document the text is added to a database. Once it has been added to the database I would like it to echo back a response telling the user that it has added the text to the database successfully. However, if i make it echo that response back to the home page, there is nowhere declared for it to display the echoed message. Has anyone got an idea of what i should be doing in order to get this working? Many Thanks.</p> <p>Normally i wouldn't use a post straight from the form and i would use ajax and then display the data within a paragraph or something on it's return, however since the form is doing the post it's self i am not sure where to then declare where the response should show up. </p> <p>The bellow displays my html form code and shows it's action to post to a php file.</p> <pre><code> &lt;div id="userban2"&gt;&lt;form id="bannable" action="/onlineusers.php" method="post"&gt;&lt;p&gt; Type username to ban bellow:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;textarea name="banned" id="banned" maxlength="255"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="Send" class="extrabuttons" onclick="return false; preventDefault();"&gt; &lt;div id="cancelban" class="extrabuttons"&gt;&lt;p&gt; cancel&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>However when in my php file i write ....</p> <pre><code> echo "the information has been added to the database successfully"; </code></pre> <p>It might send the echo back however it isn't declared to display anywhere how can i change this to make it display the response within my form?</p> <p>As requested return from my php</p> <pre><code>if(isset($_POST["banned"])){ $ban_name = $_POST["banned"]; bannedd($ban_name); } function bannedd($ban_name) { $query1 = mysql_query("INSERT INTO banned_users (username,firstname,lastname,email,password,ip_address,sign_up_date,last_logged_in,about,sta rr,userpref) VALUES('$usernameb','$fnameb','$lnameb','$emailb','$passwordb','$ip_addressb','$sign_up_date b','$last_logged_inb','$aboutb','$starrb','$userprefb')") or die("Could not insert your informaion"); echo "This user has successfully been banned"; } </code></pre> <p>The form posts what is written in the form due to it having the action and method of post to my php. However should i then have any return i am not sure how i declare where the returned information should then show (The echoed message).</p>
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    2. COPlease, make it clearer how your are posting your data (is this "preventDefault()" function doing the job?) and provide the response script you wrote so far ("onlineusers.php").
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    3. COAjax seems like the best bet here. It is made for returning messages after php interaction. I don't understand why you are not using it.
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