You're right when you say this has nothing to do with PHP. Well, mostly right. I don't believe he is looking for a select box solution. I believe what is being looked for is a Google Suggest style input box auto-complete solution. Now you were right to say this is heavily dependant on JavaScript or Flash (though flash would be a very bad soultion for this). Check out this link: http://www.papermountain.org/demos/live/ It contains a tutorial for developing a JavaScript XMLHTTPRequest style auto-complete input box. In fact, the liveUpdater tool that he uses is so good that I ended up using it as a model for my own AJAX toolkit. On 12/30/05, Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, December 27, 2005 2:03 am, Dave Carrera wrote: > > I have a very long list of customer names which i know is easy to get > > from a mysql result using php, no prob there. > > How long is very long?... > > > But what i would like to do is offer input box and when the user > > enters > > a letter, i think this will require client side onchange(), the full > > list, i think might be in an iframe, will move to the first instance > > of > > user input. > > > > Example: > > > > 1 Alpha Customer > > 2 Apple Customer > > 3 Beta Customer > > 4 Crazy customer > > 5 Doppy customer > > > > User input is "a" so the list moves to first instance of "a". User > > continues to input "ap" so the list moves to "2 Apple Customer" and so > > on. > > *IF* your visitor is using a decent browser and OS, then that's > EXACTLY how this works: > > <select size="10"> > <option>Alpha Customer</option> > <option>Apple Customer</option> > . > . > . > </select> > > On crappy systems, only the FIRST letter they type "counts". So they > can jump to "A" but not to "Ap" for Apple. Ugh. > > But you should not be dumping a VERY long list to the browser -- > Anything more than a few hundred (and that's pushing it) should > probably not be in a list of choices. > > I've got one such list with 2000 in it, but ONLY for an Intranet where > I know it's always high-bandwidth and trusted/trained users. > > At any rate, this is all browser side, and so it has NOTHING to do > with PHP. > > You'll need to research JavaScript and Flash choices to get on to the > browser side of things. > > I've also had good luck with giving an 'a b c d e ... z' and paging > navigation for larger sets. Up to a point. > > At some point, you really do need to have a search input box and go > from there. > > -- > Like Music? > http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
