php searching while typing entry

[vavavince]

my problem is that i want the php to search a specific db while i am typing my search item in the textbox.. i think ill also b using javascript, onkeyup... would anybody hav an idea?

[drawmack]

php is serverside and you're typing on the clientside. The only thing you could do is submit the form onKeyUp. However I don't think that would be a good idea.

The only other option is to have php dump all possible values into a file of javascript objects and have javascript search through the javascript objects but that's not going to be fun.

[vavavince]

yup.. i agree with that.. but hav a look at this page.. http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/compare_select.php damn.. enter the first few letters and there will be a list of choices at the bottom.. how the heck did he do it??!!

[drawmack]

well looking at his source I see that he does this

<input type="intext" name="model" size="25" onkeyup="phonesearch(this.value);" id="intext" style="width:188px;">

So he's calling the javascript function ponesearch with this.value onkeyup

If you go through the javascript at the bottom of the page you'll see that he's got an array that lists all the phone models and some functions that search through this array and display the results in the correct form elements.

He's probably doing what I listed as the second method but with arrays instead of objects. Which if you disect the code is not easy, like I said.

[vavavince]

i guess i just hav 2 study javascript som more.. thanks..