Add to a page without refreshing

Originally Posted by Magic

Right now I'm playing around with PHP scripting and web design in general, and I was just wondering what I'd need to do this. I've seen that the Gamingforce forums have this feature where you can post using the Quick Post or edit your post, and rather than reloading the page it'll simply display a text box (and vice versa when you submit). Can this be accomplished with pure PHP or would I need to use something else?

It's called AJAX. It's a not a new language or anything, it's actually a combined use of several different ones, the biggest being PHP and Javascript. Data from the client computer is streamed invisibly to the server and back again to the client.

Unfortunately, that's about as far as my knowledge of web languages go. Try looking up Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX
The "See Also" portion should provide a better understand of the technicalities.

Jam it back in, in the dark.