AJAX Live Search in PHP

Hello folks! welcome back to a new edition of our tutorial on PHP. In this tutorial guide, we are going to be discussing about AJAX Live Search in PHP.

AJAX is used for communicating with the web pages and also the web servers.

Example

The below example demonstrates a search field using AJAX -

<html>
   <head>
      
      <style>
         span {
            color: green;
         }
      </style>
      
      <script>
         function showHint(str) {
            if (str.length == 0) {
               document.getElementById("txtHint").innerHTML = "";
               return;
            }else {
               var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
					
               xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
                  if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4 && xmlhttp.status == 200) {
                     document.getElementById("txtHint").innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
                  }
               }
               xmlhttp.open("GET", "php_ajax.php?q=" + str, true);
               xmlhttp.send();
            }
         }
      </script>
      
   </head>
   <body>
      
      <p><b>Search your favourite tutorials:</b></p>
      
      <form>
         <input type = "text" onkeyup = "showHint(this.value)">
      </form>
      
      <p>Entered Course name: <span id="txtHint"></span></p>
   
   </body>
</html>

The above code opens a file name, called php_ajax.php by using GET method, so we need to create a file name, called php_ajax in the same directory and the output will be attached with txtHint.

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php_ajax.php

It contains arrays of course names and it returns the value to the web browser -

<?php
   // Array with names
   $a[] = "Android";
   $a[] = "B programming language";
   $a[] = "C programming language";
   $a[] = "D programming language";
   $a[] = "AJAX";
   $a[] = "JavaScript";
   $a[] = "DOM";
   $a[] = "HTML5";
   $a[] = "jQuery";
   $a[] = "Java";
   $a[] = "K programming language";
   $a[] = "PHP";
   $a[] = "Microsoft technologies";
   $a[] = "Networking";
   $a[] = "Open Source";
   $a[] = "Prototype";
   $a[] = "MySQL";
   $a[] = "Restful web services";
   $a[] = "CSS";
   $a[] = "WordPress";
   $a[] = "Python";
   $a[] = "VB Script";
   $a[] = "Web Technologies";
   $a[] = "Xerox Technology";
   $a[] = "JASON";
   $a[] = "XML";
   
   $q = $_REQUEST["q"];
   $hint = "";
   
   if ($q !== "") {
      $q = strtolower($q);
      $len = strlen($q);
      
      foreach($a as $name) {
		
         if (stristr($q, substr($name, 0, $len))) {
            if ($hint === "") {
               $hint = $name;
            }else {
               $hint .= ", $name";
            }
         }
      }
   }
   echo $hint === "" ? "Please enter a valid course name" : $hint;
?>

Output

When the above code is executed, it will produce the following result -

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Alright guys! This is where we are going to be rounding up for this tutorial post. In our next tutorial, we are going to be discussing about AJAX XML Parser in PHP.

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AJAX Live Search in PHP

Example

php_ajax.php

Output

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