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Can anyone point me in the right direction on how I could implement a “Predictive Text Search Box” in EE.

Eg.
I have a weblog filled with “projects” that have titles and descriptions. When the user starts to type into the search box ....on textbox change if performs a search of the project weblogs and returns the list of projects in a dhtml layer below the search box.

http://www.apple.com has an example of this top right of the page.

Eventually I want to complicate things and get this working with Flash but for now I’m content just to find a way to get it working with say jQuery / AJAX.

Is there some form of templating that could handle these types of queries?

Search the forums for “livesearch” and you’ll find some potential solutions to start from. =)

Thanks a bunch Lisa. I had a feeling I was just searching for the wrong term.

For others…I did find a plugin (http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/86635/)

which seems to do exactly what I’m looking for. Now to find a way to get it working within Flash. 😊

You should look at the bare request the searchbox makes using AJAX. Good possibility that the reply of data is in XML format or any other easy to read format. If so, you already have the reply part of the ‘webservice’ up and running (parsing paramters, querying database, constructing reply) which you can easilly (re)use in Flash. Al you need to do then is program flash to do the same type of requests (same parameters and structure) to the same ‘file’, receive the reply (XML, or whatever), and present the results.