PHP / Ajax / MYSQL Search Form

[adammc]

Hi Guys,

I am trying to develop a search form for my clients website similiar to this:
http://www.realestate.com.au

I have a db table of all the Australian Suburbs.
I have a db table of listings categories.
My Listings (what is searched on) contain a category, postcode and suburb row in the listings table in the DB.

I aim to have the following on the search form:
Input box where the user types in surburbs seperated by commas.
Combo select box with categories (pulled from db)
* Dropdown list of categories (pulled from D😎

Users would need to be able to have multiple choices for the category combo box and category input box.

How would I begin to create the ajax type style functionality for my search form as found on the link above?

Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙂

[condoug]

Have you at least got a basic understanding of how AJAX works and how to implement it into PHP forms or not?

If not, you should really start at the beginning by going through some tutorials.

This is a good starting point.

http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/default.asp

[condoug]

If you view the source of the web page you posted, you will see it is all written in javascript and you could just copy and paste it into your website to achieve the same results.

Its not exactly a form of learning, but thats a decision for you to make!