Checkbox onChange submit form - php

Question

What i have is a array of items from my mySQL database and each item has a checkbox. i am trying to make it so when you click on the checkbox it will submit the information to the database for the item that got checked or unchecked. have i have it is unchecked = 1 and checked = 0. this is for where i want to display the item.
Now my issue is I can't seem to get anything to submit into my database, I don't understand jQuery enough to be able to write a function for it, so i need some help. here is what i got for my code.
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
foreach($_POST['id'] as $id){
$value = (isset($_POST['location'][$id]) && $_POST['location'][$id]=="0" ? '0' : '1');
$insert = mysql_query("UPDATE items SET location='$value' WHERE id='$id'") or die('Insert Error: '.mysql_error());
}
}
echo '<form id="form1" method="post"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">';
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM items")
or die("Query Failed: ".mysql_error());
$counter = 0;
echo '<div class="specialcontainer">';
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
list($id, $item_info, $item_img, $price, $sale, $location) = $row;
if($location == '0'){
$set_checked = ' checked="checked" ';
}else{
$set_checked = '';
}
if($counter % 5==0) {
echo '</div>';
echo '<div class="specialcontainer">';
}
echo '<div class="special"><img src="../images/items/'.$item_img.'" width="130" /><br />';
echo $item_info.'<br />';
echo 'Reg. $'.$price.'<br />';
echo 'Sale $'.$sale.'<br />';
echo 'Slide Show: <input type="checkbox" id="ch" value="0" name="location['.$id.']"'.$set_checked.' /><br />';
echo '<input type="button" value="Edit" name="edit" onclick="window.location.href=\'specials.php?action=edit&id='.$id.'\'">';
echo '<input type="button" value="Delete" name="Delete" onclick="window.location.href=\'specials.php?action=delete&id='.$id.'\'">';
echo '<input type="hidden" name="id[]" value='.$id.' />';
echo '</div>';
$counter++;
}
echo '</div>';
echo '<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"></form>';
so as you can see, i do have the submit button there, but my plan is to remove it for the onChange submit. I've tried the onchange="this.form.submit();" in the checkbox parameter but it don't work properly. so i just want it to submit anytime a checkbox gets clicked on kinda thing.

Answer 1

Would an Ajax solution like this work?
$('ch').click(function() {
//this is what goes into $_POST
var data = 'id='+ $(this).attr('name') +'&checked=' + $(this).is(':checked');
$.ajax({
//This would be the url that would handle updating the MySQL Record
url: my_mysql_handler.php,
cache: false,
type: 'POST',
data: data,
success: function(response) {
alert(response); //or whatever you want to do with the success/fail notification
}
});
});

Answer 2

You should try document.getElementById('form1').submit() in the onchange method of your checkbox