How To Make Search Form Autocomplete With PHP and Jquery-ui

What Will I Learn?

You will learn PHP
You will learn Jquery

Requirements

Text Editor
Xampp
Jquery Package

Difficulty

Intermediate

Tutorial Contents

Hello everyone, I want to give you a tutorial "How To Make Search Form Autocomplete With PHP and Jquery". Okay follow me.

First, open your xampp and start apache service and mysql service, open your browser and typ on header bar http://localhost/phpmyadmin , and then create database with name utopian and create table with name autocomplete with table like on image

Source Sql

-- phpMyAdmin SQL Dump
-- version 4.7.2
-- https://www.phpmyadmin.net/
--
-- Host: localhost
-- Generation Time: Mar 21, 2018 at 05:38 AM
-- Server version: 10.1.26-MariaDB
-- PHP Version: 7.1.8

SET SQL_MODE = "NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO";
SET AUTOCOMMIT = 0;
START TRANSACTION;
SET time_zone = "+00:00";


/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8mb4 */;

--
-- Database: `utopian`
--

-- --------------------------------------------------------

--
-- Table structure for table `autocomplete`
--

CREATE TABLE `autocomplete` (
  `id` int(100) NOT NULL,
  `title` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
  `url` varchar(100) NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

--
-- Dumping data for table `autocomplete`
--

INSERT INTO `autocomplete` (`id`, `title`, `url`) VALUES
(1, 'How to create preloader using CSS & Jquery', 'https://www.google.com/),
(2, 'Login with Google Account using PHP & Mysql', 'https://www.google.com/'),
(3, 'Login with Facebook using PHP & Mysql', 'https://www.google.com/'),
(4, 'Export to Excel using PHP & Mysql', 'https://www.google.com/'),
(5, 'Login and Registration in PHP and Mysql', 'https://www.google.com/'),
(6, 'How to create bootstrap form validation', 'https://www.google.com/');
COMMIT;

/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET COLLATION_CONNECTION=@OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION */;

And then open your text editor like notepad ++, write this code and save with name index.php

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Tutorial Search Autocomplete</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">
  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.js"></script>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/bootstrap.min.css">
  <script type="text/javascript" src="js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
  <script>
  $(function() {
    $( "#search" ).autocomplete({
      source: 'autocomplate_search.php'
    });
  });
  </script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
  <h2>Autocomplete search using PHP Mysql Jquery and Ajax</h2>
  <label for="search" class="control-label">Search: </label>
  <input id="search" class="form-control" placeholder="Search">
</div>
</body>
</html>

Save that code on your htdocs and make a new folder with name search and save it on folder search.
And copy this source save with name autocomplate_search.php

<?php
$host = 'localhost';
$username = 'root';
$pass = '';
$Dbname = 'utopian';
//connect with the database
$db = new mysqli($host,$username,$pass,$Dbname);
//get search term
$searchTerm = $_GET['term'];
$query = $db->query("SELECT * FROM autocomplete WHERE title LIKE '%".$searchTerm."%' ORDER BY id ASC");
while ($row = $query->fetch_assoc()) {
    $data[] = $row['title'];
}
//return json data
echo json_encode($data);
?>

Explanation of the code above :

index. php

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">

to call jquery style code to your autocomplete search form.

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.js"></script>

to call jquery ui to your autocomplete search.

<script>
  $(function() {
    $( "#skills" ).autocomplete({
      source: 'autocomplate_search.php'
    });
  });
  </script>

that source to call file autocomplate_search.php.

autocomplate_search.php

$db = new mysqli($host,$username,$pass,$Dbname);

that source to connect tou your database

$searchTerm = $_GET['term'];

get search term

$query = $db->query("SELECT * FROM autocomplete WHERE title LIKE '%".$searchTerm."%' ORDER BY id ASC");

searching for your search in the database utopian on table autocomplete whre your title.

echo json_encode($data);

return json data on variable $data.

okay if you have finished follow all the tutorial above now open its result in your web browser by typing http://localhost/search/ and you can type on that form like " php, how, html".

okay everyone, the benefits of this tutorial to make it easier for users to search articles or other data :).
one more, I recommend this way to apply in the search contribution on utopian because on utopian there is no implementation in its search engine.

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