Ken,

You might want to look at the autocomplete code in Scriblio.

The JS is part of the theme:
http://svn.scriblio.net/theme/trunk/scripts/

The server side:
http://svn.scriblio.net/plugin/trunk/suggest.php

And you can actually try it here:
http://nov9.scriblio.net/browse/

About jquery.suggest.js: I had to modify Peter Vulgaris' excellent
class. The mods are commented but I should add some notes to the header.

--Casey

On Dec 17, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Ken Irwin wrote:

> It occurs to me that I didn't specify much about my environment. I'm
> using PHP + MySQL to do my searching, and hoping for AJAX to make it a
> bit more dynamic. I don't have and am not at all familiar with Ruby on
> Rails, so I'm mostly hoping for a lightweight JavaScript approach. I
> did
> download the Scriptaculous framework/library which I thought might do
> the trick, but I've not figured out a way to make that work. (It seems
> to be more into regular auto-completion rather than narrowing the
> results display.
>
> Ken
>
> Ken Irwin wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm looking for what ought to be a straightfoward and easily-
>> available
>> code example to copy from: an html form that narrows its search
>> results on the fly based on user input. I've had no trouble finding
>> form-autocomplete functions that help the user find a search term,
>> but
>> I'm looking for something a little different. I want:
>>
>> 1. The textbox up here; user types content and the content of #2
>> narrows accordingly
>> ----
>> 2. A separate div with some fairly complicated entries based on the
>> search results down here in a separate div
>>
>> Does anyone have some straightforward code for this? (I'm fairly
>> certain that Ch. 4 of /Ajax for dummies/ had a Google-search example
>> of this, but the sample code I downloaded for that a year ago has
>> ceased functioning, and I don't have the book in my possession right
>> now to re-download that book's examples.
>>
>> And likewise: any favorite Ajax sites that give lots of examples +
>> code? I'm finding that to be less prevalent than I'd imagined...
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Ken
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ken Irwin
>> Reference Librarian
>> Thomas Library, Wittenberg University
>
> --
> Ken Irwin
> Reference Librarian
> Thomas Library, Wittenberg University