title: Post to nodejs and return results
body: <p>I have been searching for hours on google for away to post from my client js hosted on my site to a nodejs server, than return those results back to my client side.</p>
  
  <p>This is an example of what I'm trying to accomplish:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
  var my_id = &lt;?=$myuserid;?&gt;;
  $(function(){
      $.ajax({
          url: 'http://mydomain.com:8001/get_friends',
          dataType: 'JSONP',
          type: 'POST',
          crossDomain: true,
          data: {
              id: my_id
          },
          success: function(data){
              if(data.error===true){
                  alert(data.msg);
              } else {
                  alert(data.users);
              }
          }
      });
  });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Than the NodeJS File:</p>
  
  <pre><code>var http = require('http'),
      url = require('url'),
      mysql = require('mysql'),
      sys = require('sys');
  var client = mysql.createClient({
      user: 'root',
      password: 'password',
  });
  
  http.createServer(function(request, response){
      client.query('USE mydatabase');
      client.query(
          'SELECT * FROM buddy_list WHERE user_id = "This is where I need my post to go"',
          function selectCb(err, results, fields){
              if(err){
                  throw err;
              }
              response.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type' : 'application/json' });
              "Here I need it to feed back results to client script."
              response.end();
              client.end();
      })
  }).listen(8001);
  </code></pre>