[RESOLVED] Adding keyboard/click functionality to autosuggester

[MonteCristo]

I've only lightly modified the components of this autosuggester:
http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/03/php-components-autosuggest.html .
Unfortunately it's functionality is rather limited in that it only produces the drop down list of matches in the database. I would like a mouse click on an element of the list to copy it's contents into the search bar.

My javascript is pretty weak though 😉, so I was thinking maybe some onclick="getElementById(search-q).value = getElemenyById(an id i create that corresponds to each element of the list that the php creates), but I'm not sure how to implement it. Any advice/reference material would be greatly appreciated.

[rulian]

You can simply have the onclick on the search's result item to pass it's value to your search field. To do that your AJAX be it XML or simply an HTML insert needs to know how to reffer to your search field and what value it needs to pass. For example let's say your search field's ID is "my_search" then when you are (or the script) is listing the results in the suggest box it simply needs to add " onclick="document.getElementById('my_search').value='<?PHP PHP_VALUE ?>'"
That is the very low tech way of doing it but probably the least confusing if you arent strong on javascript.
To do this you need to know where the script is generating the suggest list items and what value you want to pass that is available in the PHP