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Hell Yeah Bitch gets “Live Searching”

April 28th, 2005 by Mike

Google Suggest has nothing on us!

I know it doesn’t look any different, but if you give the search field on the right (it should already be in focus for you) a try then you will see the great new functionality.


How did I do this? Well I must give credit to LiveSearch, which is a nice little collection of javascript that uses the XMLHTTPRequest (I’ve talked about this before.), which is all the craze now with us webhead types. All I had to do was write a little PHP script that searches the site’s database and returns a list of entries with their links. The javascript and some CSS does the rest. Pretty cool huh?

Head to the site and give a shot on your site. If you have problems writing the PHP script, I’ll be happy to share mine or any other help I can give.

Now, I need to get back to that javascript code so I can understand it better and start using this technology a bit more.

(Also, if you notice any bugs, help me out and drop me a line.)

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  • Yeah, its a pretty nice little searching doo-hickey. I was adding it to the redesign of artfinale.com I'm working on, and I thought this would be nice on my site. So with a quick re-write of the search script, and its up.

    Also, you can now increase the text size freely without any style hiccups. The search box bug is fixed.
  • danielcole
    That's pretty nifty. And Quick - I didn't see any lag on when it was updating.
    You want comments? I've got one: I usually surf with the text 1 size bigger than default because small text hurts my eyes. Everything still lays out correctly when bigger except the search textbar - it flows outside of its container. I think removing the size="20" and adding style="width: 100%" will make it scale regardless of the browser's font size. The search results window that pops up does scale nicely.
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