[FX.php List] Search as you type

[Dale Bengston]

I do it with Scriptaculous. With FileMaker, I match against a pre-cached Session array of the field in question. In my experience, FileMaker is just too slow to do real-time, character-by-character auto-completes.

Dale

On Oct 11, 2010, at 9:12 PM, Head Honcho wrote:

> I've used jQuery typewatch to do a similar thing to autocomplete.
> 
> It does a query to the database 500ms after typing has stopped, which then can be used.
> 
> Hope this helps, somewhat.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Michael Ward
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> On 12/10/2010, at 12:56 PM, Leo R. Lundgren wrote:
> 
>> I haven't done this with FileMaker specifically, but in general/with other code.
>> 
>> You could have a look at http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/ which is a jQuery widget that will give you autocomplete. You set it up on the page, and then provide a lookup method on the server side, that this widget then calls. Your lookup method could simply query the FM database for you to return the relevant data for the widget.
>> 
>> 
>> 12 okt 2010 kl. 03.53 skrev Stephe Pocock:
>> 
>>> Hi all
>>> 
>>> Has anyone successfully managed to get a search as you type system working with Filemaker via the web?
>>> 
>>> I have a contacts database that we would like to be able to search via a spotlight type search.  We have this working within filemaker using script triggers, but this does not work via IWP and I was hoping to set something up with PHP and Ajax (I guess).
>>> 
>>> Has anyone done this?   Are you willing to share the code or point me in the right directions?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks in adavance
>>> 
>>> Stephe
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