because I am searching through towns and postcode (zip codes) for Australia some post codes are as short as 2/3 char so I need to keep it set to 3 but just return a maxium of 10 results. When you enter the postcode (zipcode) you would get no more than about 4 results.
So because of the large data set do people think I should go with SQL or XML ? sorry I was not quite sure James On 4/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > James, > > The secret there would be to set a minChars value to 5. There's no > sense in guessing towns on the first number of a zip code. > Autocomplete should make things faster for the user, but trying to > guess towns from a severely incomplete zip code isn't doing them any > favors. You don't want to let the user interact with a list of > possibilities until the subset of choices is narrowed down to a > reasonable level. > > -khoker > > > On Apr 17, 8:00 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I found the JQuery and Dan's plugin for auto complete mod today and > > was just what I was looking for, I have a form where I ask the user to > > enter there town or postcode ( ZIP code) and then it will auto > > complete the form. My problem that I found using a cold fusion page is > > that held a massive array of towns I got a nice error message of "Code > > of a method longer than 65535 bytes" this is due to the class file > > that is being created is to big. I know that it was not very smart to > > try and enter 20,000 towns in to an array but I am not a real coder :- > > ( what would be the correct way to hold all of this data ? XML ? SQL > > (SQL to slow) I saw yellowpage.com.au has a nice auto complete form > > for the location part and I guess I am trying to replicate some thing > > like that. > > > > >
