A listbox like in Delphi/Object Pascal

[khovorka]

I am coming from doing Delphi development and need to be able to store
a fairly large list of strings (5000+) and be able to dynamically add and remove from the list and also to search for a specific value already being in the list so
it is not added again. What is the best approach to do that. In Delphi I could
simply create a listbox and hide it but use it to store the strings and do reads, inserts, deletes and searches.

What is the best way to do that with PHP/HTML/Javascript? I need to learn
what to do here.

Thanks,

Kim
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[NogDog]

The requirements are a bit vague, but one possible solution would be an AJAX implementation, having JavaScript functions on the client side calling PHP scripts on the server side. The advantage of such an implementation is that you don't have to transmit big chunks of JavaScript code and perhaps hidden HTML, plus the server-side scripts have access to your database with its large capacity and fast processing. The disadvantage to be weighed against that is that each operation requires a request from the client to the server and then a wait for the response so that it can then modify the output as needed.