COMBO BOX

[anirban1087]

Hi,
I am working with PHP. I have a field in my form, which is basically a text box. But as the user start to type it will show a list of matching items, fetched from mysql table. I can have a drop down, but in a drop down , I can't insert text. How to solve this? Should I use ajax or js or some thing else?

[SolidSolutions]

can you explain it differently, I do not understand what you need.

Do you already have this working as you want:
"I have a field in my form, which is basically a text box. But as the user start to type it will show a list of matching items, fetched from mysql table."

And you want a dropdown box that you can type in:
"I can have a drop down, but in a drop down , I can't insert text. How to solve this?"

or are these 2 fields the same thing you are just trying to figure out how to implement the best way?

Try to give me exactly what you need and I'll see what I can do.

[Taywin]

What you need is 'auto-complete' for the field. You cannot use combination of combo-box with text field... You should be able to find a js library/file that someone has implemented it. It was quite a hot topic a while back ago about implementing auto-complete form.

[anirban1087]

Actually, I have implemented the same using drop down. But now I want to do this using a text-box/combo-box.

[SolidSolutions]

If I understand what you are wanting correctly, you can not actually have that. You have to basically use 2 different fields:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/combo.html

If you can use jquery:
http://simpletutorials.com/?path=tutorials/javascript/jquery/ddcombobox

or

http://flexbox.codeplex.com/