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[Dysan]

Using Ajax, Javascript, and a start and stop delimiter symbol "/". How do I enable the user to type directly onto a page, without using a textbox. Upon each character being entered, how do I search a data for the complete string? (Minus the "/")?

 

If the string corresponds to an id/string in the database , how do I display a message, notifying the user that a record was found?

 

The following code is what I have so far. This code enables the user to type directly onto a page. How do I add Ajax to the following code, in order to check the ID field in the database for the string entered onto the page?

 

<script type='text/javascript'>
var x=null;
var y=null;
var tId = "";
window.onload = function() {
  x = document.getElementById('x'); 
  y = document.forms[0].copyField; 
  document.onkeypress = myOnKeyPress;
}
function myOnKeyPress(e) {
  e = (e)?e:window.event;
  key = (e.keyCode)? e.keyCode: e.which;
  if (key==27) {
    x.innerHTML =""; // escape pressed to clear the field
    y.value =""; // remove if you do not want to clear field
  }
  else {
    x.innerHTML += String.fromCharCode(key);
    y.value = x.innerHTML;
  }
}
</script>

[haku]

This is the php section. While Ajax can access php documents, it isn't a php technology, so you are asking in the wrong place.

 

That being said, even if you go to the right place (there is an ajax section of the forum), I doubt you are going to get an answer. Its one thing to ask someone to help you fix a script you can't get working, its another thing to ask for a lesson from scratch.

 

If you are willing to pay the money to get it done, feel free to send me a private message. I'll write you script for you for a fee.

 

How do I enable the user to type directly onto a page, without using a textbox

 

A what? I don't think there is a such thing as a textbox. there are text inputs and text areas though. But assuming thats what you meant, you can't do what you are speaking of. Text can only be typed into a text input, a text area, or maybe a file input, although thats a little different.

[Dysan]

Yes, but thats where your wrong, my above JavaScript script enables you to type directly onto the screen! - There is now signs of a textbox (text input) within my code!

 

Work it out?

 

How much would you be expecting to be paid?

[amites]

think you guys could take this into private messages?

 

I don't see it helping anyone else