Magus Creo

I’ve been sporadically working on a ‘People Search’ utility for the website I maintain and develop. This has been an ongoing project since about a year ago (when I started) - because it was one of the first things I remember being asked about. In recently months, I’ve come closer and closer to finding an open-source solution out here on the web.

After stumbling through several iterations, using several different sites, I finally stumbled across this gem on Antonio Lupetti’s blo: Woork. This is the first out-of-the-box solution I’ve found that works in PHP with MySQL, and has a nice and SMALL (under 50 lines) Ajax library packed with it.

I hope this comes of use to someone else - the code is highly customizable, and could fit into any project.

Here is a list of links I used prior to finding Antonio’s solution:

YUI Autocomplete AJAX Select Drowdown with ID
AutoCompleter Tutorial - jQuery(Ajax)/PHP/MySQL
Yahoo! AutoComplete
jQuery Autocomplete Mod
FaceBoox style autosuggest with jQuery
Implementing AJAX Suggest and Autocomplete
Ajax autosuggest/autocomplete from database
Ajax Auto Suggest v.2
Facebook List TextboxList with AutoCompletion
Proto!MultiSelect 0.2
TextboxList meets Autocompletion

Good luck all, and feel free to contact me should you have questions?

-Dan