JQuery to submit PHP not executing

you can use e.preventDefault(); or return false;

<script>
$(document).ready(function(e) {
   $('#submitpicks').on('submit',function(e){
        e.preventDefault();
        $.post('submitpick.php', $(this).serialize(), function(data) {
            $('#results').html(data);
        });
        // return false;
    });

});

</script>

Note: in your php you not echo out anything to get it back as a data .. so basic knowledge when you trying to use $.post or $.get or $.ajax .. to check the connection between js and php .. so in php

<?php
    echo 'File connected';
?>

and then alert(data) in js .. if everything works fine .. go to next step

Explain each Step..

before everything you should check you install jquery if you use

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>

from w3schools website.. its totally wrong .. you should looking for how to install jquery ... then

1st to submit form with js and prevent reloading.. and you used <script> in your main page

<script>
    $(document).ready(function(e) {
       $('#submitpicks').on('submit',function(e){
            e.preventDefault();  //this will prevent reloading page
            alert('Form submitted Without Reloading');
       });
    });
<script>

output : alert with Form submitted Without Reloading ... if this step is good and you get the alert .. go to next step

2nd add $.post to your code

<script>
        $(document).ready(function(e) {
           $('#submitpicks').on('submit',function(e){
                e.preventDefault();  //this will prevent reloading page
                $.post('submitpick.php', $(this).serialize(), function(data){
                     alert(data);
                 });
           });
        });
    <script>

and in submitpick.php >>> be sure your mainpage.php and submitpick.php in the same directory

<?php
    echo 'File connected';
?>

output: alert with File connected

Have you heard of AJAX(asynchronous javascript and XML). While it may not be something that is easy to learn for someone who is new to JQuery and javascript, it does pretty much what you need. Well, its a bit more complicated than that, but basically AJAX submits information by using HTTP requests (much like normal forms) but without refreshing the page.

Here's a link to a tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/ with vanilla javascript.

Here's one with Jquery: http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/jquery_ajax_intro.asp

And here's an example of how you can set it up with Jquery:

$(document).ready(function() {
     $.ajax({
        method: "POST",
        url: "/something.php"
        dataType: "JSON",
        data: {formData:{formfield1: $('formfield1').val(), formfield2: $('formfield2)'.val()}},
        success: function(data){
            if (data["somevalue"]) == something {
                dosomething;
            } else {
                dosomethingelse
        },
        error: function() {
            alert("Error message");
        }
     });

});

This is only a basic example, now what does all this stuff mean anyway. Well, there are several methods, some of them are POST and GET, these are HTTP request methods, which you can use to do several things. I'm no expert on this stuff, but here's what they do:

Method

POST

POST basically works, to submit information to a server, which is then usually inserted to a database to which that server is connected to. I believe most forms utilize POST requests, but don't quote me on that.

GET

GET on the other hand requests data from a server, which then fetches it into the database and sends it back to the client so it can perform an action. For instance, whenever you load a page, GET requests are made to load the various elements of a page. What's important to note here, is that this request is made specifically to retrieve data.

There are other types of HTTP requests you can use such as PUT and DELETE, which I'd say are the most common along with GET and POST. Anyway I'd recommend that you look them up, its useful information.

Url

The url represents the path to which you are making a request, I'm not exactly sure how it works with PHP, I think you just need to call the PHP page in question and it will work properly, but I'm not sure, I haven't used PHP since my last semester, been using Rails and it doesn't work quite the same. Anyway, lets say you have some PHP page called, "Something.php" and lets say that somethihng PHP has the following content:

<?php
   $form_data = $_POST['data'];
   $array = json_decode(form_data, true);
    do something with your data;
    $jsonToSendBack = "{status: 1}";
    $response = json_encode($jsonToSendBack);
    echo $response;
 ?>

So basically what that file received was a JSON, which was our specified datatype and in turn after we finish interpreting data in the server, we send back a response through echo our echo. Now since our datatype is a JSON, the client is expecting a response with JSON, but we'll get to that later. If you're not familiar with JSON, you should look it up, but in simple terms JSON is a data exchange format that different languages can utilize to pass data to each other, like in this example, where I sent data to PHP through Javascript and vice-versa.

DataType

Data type is basically, the type of information that you want to send to the server, you can specify it through ajax. There are many data types you can send and receive, for instance if you wanted to, you could send XML or Text to the server, and in turn it should return XML or text, depending on what you chose.

Success and Error Finally, there's the success and error parameters, basically if a request was successful, it returns a status code of 200, though that doesn't mean that other status codes do not indicate success too, nonetheless 200 is probably the one you'd like to see when making HTTP requests. Anyway, success basically specifies that if the request succeeded it should execute that function code I wrote, otherwise if there is an error, it will execute the function within error. Finally, even if you do have a success on your request, that doesn't mean everything went right, it just means that the client was successful in contacting the server and that it received a response. A request might be successful but that doesn't generally mean that your server-side code executed everything perfectly.

Anyway, I hope my explanation is sufficient, and that you can take it from here.