[javascript] Send data from javascript to a mysql database

I have this little click counter. I would like to include each click in a mysql table. Can anybody help?

var count1 = 0;
function countClicks1() {
count1 = count1 + 1;
document.getElementById("p1").innerHTML = count1;
}


document.write('<p>');
document.write('<a href="javascript:countClicks1();">Count</a>');
document.write('</p>');

document.write('<p id="p1">0</p>');

Just in case anybody wants to see what I did:

var count1 = 0;
function countClicks1() {
count1 = count1 + 1;
document.getElementById("p1").innerHTML = count1;
}
function doAjax()
$.ajax({
   type: "POST",
   url: "phpfile.php",
   data: "name=name&location=location",
    success: function(msg){
     alert( "Data Saved: " + msg );
   }
 });
}

document.write('</p>');
document.write('<a href="javascript:countClicks1(); doAjax();">Count</a>');
document.write('</p>');
document.write('<p id="p1">0</p>');

This is phpfile.php which for testing purposes writes the data to a txt file

<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$location = $_POST['location'];
$myFile = "test.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $name);
fwrite($fh, $location);
fclose($fh);
?>

The other posters are correct you cannot connect to MySQL directly from javascript. This is because JavaScript is at client side & mysql is server side.

So your best bet is to use ajax to call a handler as quoted above if you can let us know what language your project is in we can better help you ie php/java/.net

If you project is using php then the example from Merlyn is a good place to start, I would personally use jquery.ajax() to cut down you code and have a better chance of less cross browser issues.

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/

You will have to submit this data to the server somehow. I'm assuming that you don't want to do a full page reload every time a user clicks a link, so you'll have to user XHR (AJAX). If you are not using jQuery (or some other JS library) you can read this tutorial on how to do the XHR request "by hand".