Posted: Saturday 2nd of November 2013

This tutorial teaches you how a create a simple but powerful Auto-suggest system where a user can input a desired search term and get immediate result using Ajax, Jquery and PHP.

The system takes an inputted search term by a user from an input box and compares it with the information in the database, if a match or matches is/are found, it displays a total of twelve matches on the screen to the user in ascending order provided the matches are up to twelve otherwise, it displays the total number of matches found.

The user can choose to click on a desired result from the listed results and it will be shown in the input box.

The system supports all browsers and the scripts are written in a way that any one can easily understand and customize with good programming code comments to ease usability.

To install the system on your server after you must have downloaded the zipped folder containing the required files, please extract the file to your system then, open the file named README.txt and follow the three installation steps given in that file.

To see the system in action, please click on the Live Demo Button below and download if you like what you see.

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