Does anybody know of an auto completing search box project? Like google has on their search box - if you type in the letters "ama" it fills in the rest of the word that has in its database that matches those letters, "amazon"?
I was just wondering if their are any open source projects like this that I can build into my website? Has anyone ever implemented anything like this?
I don't think it warrants a huge enough code to be an open-source project.
It uses javascript so that, for each keyboard press into the search box, the database is queried (via AJAX i think) for similar searches.
A google search for autocomplete javascript should give some free javascripts. (although if you're familiar with jquery, i suggest you use that instead)
Feel free to ask more questions here if you want jquery/ajax/javascript explained. :)
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