It is often helpful to use an autocompleter on your website. Perhaps in search dialogs? An example is google on an extra search page.
I tested some free tools, but I had always the problem that there was no possibility to use two or more autocompleter on one page and to organize the dependency. E.g. insert a name of a country in the first textbox and in the second textbox insert a name of a city. On the city textbox you only want to see cities belonging to the inserted country – no other cities.
This problem was the reason why I developed my own autocompleter using xajax. This framework allows me to respond on the key events and select the values from the database. I could write my own functions and use any parameters.
I generated a textbox with a hidden div below which is calling a function on the onkeyup event by using xajax. In this test I mark the searched string with a span and on CSS I colored it blue. Additional I added a mouseover using CSS.
download: Autocompleter v2 (119.55KB)added: 08/11/2009
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That’s all!
February 7th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
nice ac system !
February 8th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Your work is quite amazing!
February 10th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Pushing the “down”-button to select an entry breaks it on Opera (displays “Schwedeneck” – don’t really know why).
February 10th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I tested it with Opera 9.51 and it works
February 17th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Oeehhh!!
You deserve a kiss on the buttcheek! ;)
Very nice system!
Best free autocomplete system on the net.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Wie kann ich dem Array eigene Werte wie z.B MySQL Ergebnisse zuweisen?
Wenn ich das Ergebniss-Array einfach übertrage funktioniert es nicht, bitte um hilfe :).
July 4th, 2009 at 9:24 am
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July 19th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
I didnt test it but it looks like a good AC. Exi, why dont you use the http://script.aculo.us/ (prototype) Framework? It’s an amazing good framework for almost everything, even AutoCompleter. The only problem is that they only give you the JS part, not the Server side (PHP) side.
September 29th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Under which license is Autocompleter published?
October 1st, 2009 at 5:54 pm
@Gerald:
GPL (General Public License)
October 1st, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Okay, many thanks :-)
April 9th, 2010 at 5:48 am
what’s your name? bmx