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I need code to implement mouseover effect as on http://www.netflix.com/BrowseSelection?lnkctr=nmhbs?

My html page will have a list of icons and a mouseover on an icon will display a popup window with partial text from a mysql database. On clicking the icon, a new page will open with full text and an ajax star rating system. I need the same exact effect as they have on the netflix website where you mouseover the picture of a dvd and the popup window displays info about that movie from a backend dbase. I know I need ajax/php to do this but I don't have the time to learn. If anybody has a script, knows of a script or would be interested in writing one, please let me know. Thx!!!

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1. I do not know of a singular, free package that accomplishes both of these (the tooltip and the AJAX javascript/php glue) but it's possible to accomplish this with a free tooltip package, with no AJAX glue required. The tooltip library on walterzorn.com (see the link below) allows passing HTML to the tooltip and offers a good set of customization options. The HTML is passed via "onmouseover" so you can have your PHP script put together the HTML (I wrote a function that does the mysql heavy lifting to generate the HTML based on the item ID). I found Walter's tooltip package the easiest (and it's free) and I was able to put together a nifty Netflix-style system in about an hour. Mousing over my items displays a custom pop-up, and clicking on the item sends the user to an info page.