Form confirmation message w/out page refresh

[jmizi]

So I have this php form that works perfectly, that pops up in a modal window that works perfectly…. just one problemo: Submitting the form causes a page refresh, thus closing the window, and making it so I have to re-open the modal window to see the confirmation or error message.

I know this involves Ajax which I am currently trying to learn. Was hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

Here is the form:

$message .=  . strip_tags($_POST) . ;

if(isset($_POST)) {

$to = ''. strip_tags($_POST) .'' ;

$subject = '';

$headers .= "Reply-To: ". strip_tags($_POST) . "rn";

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0rn";

$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1rn";



$success = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);



if ($success){

echo '
Your Message Has Been Sent
';

}

else{

echo '
There was an error with the form. Please contact via email or phone.
';

} } else {

?>





Your Name*





Your Email*





Friend's Email*





Message:





SEND

and the jquery script:

//When you click on a link with class of poplight and the href starts with a #

$('a.poplight[href^=#]').click(function() {

var popID = $(this).attr('rel'); //Get Popup Name

var popURL = $(this).attr('href'); //Get Popup href to define size



//Pull Query & Variables from href URL

var query= popURL.split('?');

var dim= query[1].split('&');

var popWidth = dim[0].split('=')[1]; //Gets the first query string value



//Fade in the Popup and add close button

$('#' + popID).fadeIn().css({ 'width': Number( popWidth ) }).prepend('');



//Define margin for center alignment (vertical   horizontal) - we add 80px to the height/width to accommodate for the padding  and border width defined in the css

var popMargTop = ($('#' + popID).height() + 80) / 2;

var popMargLeft = ($('#' + popID).width() + 80) / 2;



//Apply Margin to Popup

$('#' + popID).css({

'margin-top' : -popMargTop,

'margin-left' : -popMargLeft

});



//Fade in Background

$('body').append('
'); //Add the fade layer to bottom of the body tag.

$('#fade').css({'filter' : 'alpha(opacity=80)'}).fadeIn(); //Fade in the fade layer - .css({'filter' : 'alpha(opacity=80)'}) is used to fix the IE Bug on fading transparencies



return false;

});



//Close Popups and Fade Layer

$('a.close, #fade').live('click', function() { //When clicking on the close or fade layer...

$('#fade , .popup-block').fadeOut(function() {

$('#fade, a.close').remove();  //fade them both out

});

return false;

});

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