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7/10/10 at 9:25pm

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Hey guys,

I'm looking to create a search feature for a small PHP driven website. I wanted to know if you could implement a Google-esque 'dropdown' menu where if you type a letter, it populates the list of possible searches starting with that character.

For instance, if someone type 'a', I want the search feature to update the query for only results starting with 'a'.

I don't know if it's possible with PHP, but I am 100% certain it is with ASP. Does anyone have any examples to point me towards? Also, what is that name of such a script?

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Anyone have any ideas?

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Are you just talking about an auto-complete/auto-suggest?

I did a simple tutorial here using Asp.Net and jQuery: http://naspinski.net/post/Using-jque...th-AspNet.aspx

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It's a AJAX script, which uses PHP, MySQL and Javascript together.
In it's simplest form, the Javascript listens for the event of someone entering a character and then passes on the text to a PHP script.
The PHP script then searches a database for similar terms through MySQL. At the same time, Javascript is constantly checking if the PHP script has finished loading.
Once the PHP script is finished, you then use Javascript to insert the results from the PHP script back into the page.
Sounds complicated, but once you get going it's relatively simple.

This should help you get started.

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7/17/10 at 12:39am

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[Adz] it can be any combination of languages with javascript - it can also be Asp.Net, Coldfusion, perl, python, etc with MySQL, MSSQL, NoSQL, Couch, etc. as a backend. Php/MySQL is a great combination, but everything is not made with it.