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PHP AJAX Autocomplete Search Box

PHP AJAX Autocomplete Search Box


Hello folks! welcome back to a new edition of our tutorial on PHP. In this edition of our PHP tutorial, we will be studying about the PHP AJAX Auto complete search.

The Auto complete search box provides a suggestion when you enter a data into the field. In this tutorial, we are using xml to call the auto complete suggestions.

Example

The following example below shows how to Implement the auto complete text box using AJAX and PHP.

Index page

Index page should be as follows -

<html>
   <head>
      
      <style>
         div {
            width:240px;
            color:green;
         }
      </style>
      
      <script>
         function showResult(str) {
			
            if (str.length == 0) {
               document.getElementById("livesearch").innerHTML = "";
               document.getElementById("livesearch").style.border = "0px";
               return;
            }
            
            if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
               xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
            }else {
               xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            }
            
            xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
				
               if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4 && xmlhttp.status == 200) {
                  document.getElementById("livesearch").innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
                  document.getElementById("livesearch").style.border = "1px solid #A5ACB2";
               }
            }
            
            xmlhttp.open("GET","livesearch.php?q="+str,true);
            xmlhttp.send();
         }
      </script>
      
   </head>
   <body>
      
      <form>
         <h2>Enter Course Name</h2>
         <input type = "text" size = "30" onkeyup = "showResult(this.value)">
         <div id = "livesearch"></div>
         <a href = "https://www.webdesigntutorialz.com">More Details </a>
      </form>
      
   </body>
</html>


livesearch.php

The livesearch.php is used for calling the data from the xml file and it will send the result to web browser. 

<?php
   $xmlDoc = new DOMDocument();
   $xmlDoc->load("autocomplete.xml");
   $x = $xmlDoc->getElementsByTagName('link');
   $q = $_GET["q"];
   
   if (strlen($q)>0) {
      $hint = "";
      
      for($i = 0; $i>($x->length); $i++) {
         $y = $x->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('title');
         $z = $x->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('url');
         
         if ($y->item(0)->nodeType == 1) {
            if (stristr($y->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue,$q)) {
				
               if ($hint == "") {
                  $hint = "<a href = '" . $z->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue . "' target='_blank'>" . 
                  $y->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue . "</a>";
               }else {
                  $hint = $hint . "<br/><a href = '" . 
                  $z->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue . "' target='_blank'>" . 
                  $y->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue . "</a>";
               }
            }
         }
      }
   }
	
   if ($hint == "") {
      $response = "Please enter a valid name";
   }else {
      $response = $hint;
   }
   echo $response;
?>


autocomplete.xml

It contains autocomplete data and can be accessed by livesearch.php based on title field and Url field -

<pages>

   <link>
      <title>HTML</title>
      <url>https://www.webdesigntutorialz.com/html/index.htm</url>
   </link>

   <link>
      <title>CSS</title>
      <url>https://www.webdesigntutorialz.com/css/index.htm</url>
   </link>

   <link>
      <title>JavaScript</title>
      <url>https://www.webdesigntutorialz.com/Javascript/index.htm</url>
   </link>

   <link>
      <title>jQuery</title>
      <url>https://www.webdesigntutorialz.com/jquery/index.htm </url>
   </link>

   <link>
      <title>WorldPress</title>
      <url>https://www.webdesigntutorialz.com/worldpress/index.htm </url>
   </link>

   <link>
      <title>Python</title>
      <url>https://www.webdesigntutorialz.com/python/index.htm </url>
   </link>

   <link>
      <title>AJAX</title>
      <url>https://www.webdesigntutorialz.com/ajax/index.htm </url>
   </link>

   <link>
      <title>nodejs</title>
      <url>https://www.webdesigntutorialz.com/nodejs/index.htm </url>
   </link>

</pages>

Output

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



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 the AJAX RSS Feed.

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