Creating A Dynamic Update Link?

I'm trying to create a webpage where users can click on a dynamically generated set of questions:

<?php do { ?>
<p><?php echo $row_rsQuestions['question_text']; ?><?php echo $row_rsQuestions['question_type']; ?></p>
<?php } while ($row_rsQuestions = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsQuestions)); ?>

and by clicking on a particular question, there will be an update for their particular listing of personal questions in a MySql database. I know how to create the database update part, but I think that I would need to javascript to:

1) tell my page that it's time to update (i.e. add a particular question as soon as they click it)

2) pass along the correct variable to the database update portion of the page.