[jquery] Submitting HTML form using Jquery AJAX

Im trying to submit a HTML form using AJAX using this example.

My HTML code:

<form id="formoid" action="studentFormInsert.php" title="" method="post">
    <div>
        <label class="title">First Name</label>
        <input type="text" id="name" name="name" >
    </div>
    <div>
        <label class="title">Name</label>
        <input type="text" id="name2" name="name2" >
    </div>
    <div>
        <input type="submit" id="submitButton"  name="submitButton" value="Submit">
    </div>
</form>

My script:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() { 
        $('#formoid').ajaxForm(function() { 
            alert("Thank you for your comment!"); 
        }); 
    });
</script>

This is not working, I'm not even getting the alert message and when I submit I don't want to redirect to another page, I just want to show the alert message.

Is there a simple way of doing it?

PS: I have several fields, I have just put two as an example.

var postData = "text";
      $.ajax({
            type: "post",
            url: "url",
            data: postData,
            contentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
            success: function(responseData, textStatus, jqXHR) {
                alert("data saved")
            },
            error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
                console.log(errorThrown);
            }
        })

If you add:

jquery.form.min.js

You can simply do this:

<script>
$('#myform').ajaxForm(function(response) {
  alert(response);
});

// this will register the AJAX for <form id="myform" action="some_url">
// and when you submit the form using <button type="submit"> or $('myform').submit(), then it will send your request and alert response
</script>

NOTE:

You could use simple $('FORM').serialize() as suggested in post above, but that will not work for FILE INPUTS... ajaxForm() will.