<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function InitAjax()
{
var ajax=false;
try {
  ajax = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
} catch (e) {
  try {
   ajax = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  } catch (E) {
   ajax = false;
  }
}
if (!ajax && typeof XMLHttpRequest!='undefined') {
  ajax = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
return ajax;
}

function getcontent(file)
{
if (typeof(file) == 'undefined')
{
  return false;
}
var url = file;
var show = document.getElementById("content");
var ajax = InitAjax();
ajax.open("GET", url, true);
ajax.onreadystatechange = function() {
  if (ajax.readyState == 4 && ajax.status == 200) {
   show.innerHTML = ajax.responseText;
  }else{
   if (ajax.readyState == 4 && ajax.status == 404) {
    show.innerHTML = "Page Not Found";
   }else{
    show.innerHTML = "Loading...";
   }
  }
}
ajax.send(null);
}  
</script>

<a href="java script:getcontent('form.php')">form</a>
<div id="content"></div>

<?php
  // Establish a connection to the MySQL DBMS
  $connection = mysql_connect("localhost", "fred", "shhh");
  // Use the winestore database
  mysql_select_db("winestore", $connection);

  // Run a query through the connection
  $result = mysql_query("SELECT cust_id, surname,
        firstname FROM customer", $connection);

  // Fetch each row of the results into an array $row
  while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {
     echo "ID:\t{$row["cust_id"]}\n";
     echo "Surname\t{$row["surname"]}\n";
     echo "First name:\t{$row["firstname"]}\n\n";  
  }
?>