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[RESOLVED] Ajax database

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Oct 23.2010

Hi Guys,

I have never used Ajax before but am very familiar with PHP and javascript. Could somebody point me in the right direction of producing a script that obtains information from a database as one types into a text box. (Just like the friends search box on Facebook, where as you type it lists the results below as you type)

Preferable I would like to use MySQL with AJAX but not sure if that is possible?

Thanks in Advance,

Ben

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@KorOct 24.2010 — AJAX is in fact a technique, not a language. It uses JavaScript as a display language. AJAX technique is much alike a classical submit technique, except that it uses a special object (XMLHttpRequest - or ActiveX Object for IE<7) to carry the request and the response back and forth from an external file(could be a PHP file, yes, same as in classical submit, which php file does the DB interrogation and echoes a certain response). Nothing fancy, except that AJAX can make a submit without changing the session, which is the main advantage.

http://www.w3schools.com/Ajax/ajax_aspphp.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/Ajax/ajax_database.asp
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@Benji6996authorOct 24.2010 — All sorted, thanks very much guys.
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