Jan 9, 2013

Auto Complete Text box using AJAX in PHP


To view the live demo please enter your country name.











If you want to fill a text box content automatically from the database use the following code.

Step 1

Create a database test and add one table named countries with the following fields

id

value


Step 2

Insert some dummy values into the table TEST manually or download the database file from the following link

To download database file - Click Here



id




value




1




India




2




America




3




England




4




Canada





Step 3

Create one PHP page index.php and add the following code into that HTML page.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />


<title>Auto Complete Input box</title>


<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="jquery.ajaxcomplete.css" />


<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>


<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.ajaxcomplete.js"></script>


<script>


$(document).ready(function(){


 $("#country").autocomplete("ajaxcomplete.php", {


selectFirst: true


});


});


</script>


</head>

<body>


    <label>Enter Your Country Name : </label>


    <input name="country" type="text" id="country" size="20"/>


</body>


</html>



Step 4

Create another PHP page ajaxcomplete.php and add the following code into that PHP page.

<?php

$q=$_GET['q'];

$my_data=mysql_real_escape_string($q);

$mysqli=mysqli_connect('localhost','root','','test') or die("Database Error");

$sql="SELECT value FROM countries WHERE value LIKE '%$my_data%' ORDER BY value LIMIT 10";

$result = mysqli_query($mysqli,$sql) or die(mysqli_error());

if($result)

{

while($row=mysqli_fetch_array($result))

{

echo $row['value']."\n";

}

}

?>


Step 5

Open index.php file from WAMP server and enter your country name letters then it automatically display the full country name.

To download code - Click Here


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