Using $.post for simple ajax test, what am I missing?

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Published on 2010-03-15T21:22:19Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 21:29 UTC
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Playing with jquery for the first time, and I'm trying to get a simple AJAX set up working so I can better understand how things work. Unfortunately, I don't know a whole lot. Here's the HTML with the script:

<html>
<head>
 <title>AJAX attempt with jQuery</title>
 <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
 <script type="text/javascript">
   function ajax(str){
   $("document").ready(function(){
     $.post("ajaxjquerytest.php",str,function(){
       $("p").html(response);
       });
     });
 </script> 
</head>  
<body>
 <input type="text" onchange="ajax(this.value)"></input> 
 <p>Age?</p>
</body>
</html>

And here is the PHP it's talking to:

<?php
$age = $_POST['age'];

if ($age < 30)
  {
  echo "Young";
  }
else if ($age > 30)
  {
  echo "Old";
  }
else
  {
  echo "you're 30";
  }
?>

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