I'm looking into using the autocomplete plugin from http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-autocomplete/.
The provided examples all use static data. What I want to do is to mimic the behavior that search engines (like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.) use for the auto-complete on their entry fields... After the user enters each character into the text field, the search engine's auto complete generates a new set of selectable options based on the current value of the text field. So if the user enters "fog" into the text field, the text field shows one set of options after the user enters the "f", and then a refined set of options after the user enters the "o", and then an even more refined set of options after the user enters the "g". My server has a back-end routine that will take the string that the user has entered so far, and returns the auto-complete data for that particular string. (Not this this is relevant to jquery, but my server implements this by making calls to http://google.com/complete/search?q=fog.) The server outputs a javascript string that looks like this: var autocompleteData = ["some value", "some other value", "yet another value", "and so on"]; What I need is for the autocomplete module to invoke my server routine after each keystroke. Is this possible?
