I am fooling around with Mootools basically just to learn new stuff I have a script I used in a tutorial I wrote for Joomla so I wanted to see if I could apply it here I am just not quite sure how to post a request using Mootools and not have the page refresh echo '<form action=index.php method="get"> Enter Letter<br /> <input type="text" name="letter" /> <input type="hidden" name="option" value="'.$option.'" /> <input type="submit" class="button" id="button" value="submit" /> </form>'; $letter = JRequest::getVar ('letter' , a); $query ="SELECT a.* FROM #__content AS a WHERE a.title LIKE '$letter%' "; foreach ($rows as $article) { echo '<br />'; $link = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_content&id='.$article->id); echo '<a href="'.$link.'">'.$article->title.'</a>'; echo '<br />'; } ?> Code (markup): you can ignore some of the Joomla classes, just looking at the php how can I submit the letter and make the db results appear without refreshing any help that can help me see what is going on here will most appreicated you can see the code in joomla here http://www.bostondiamondexchange.com/beta/index.php?option=com_pagination&Itemid=3 like i said my concern is making the request to the database and not having to refresh the page using mootools