Creating a search feature

Allowing your users to search through data within your web application is a basic principle. This recipe will show you how to create a fast and efficient search feature that uses jQuery and AJAX with a PHP and MySQL backend.

Getting ready

This recipe not only requires that you have a running web server that has PHP5, but you will also need a MySQL server that is ready to accept connections from PHP scripts.

How to do it…

Learn how to create a search feature from scratch, which will show you valuable jQuery principles in action, by performing the following steps:

  1. We need to create a database and a table to store the data that the users will be able to search. Create a database named jquerycookbook on your database server, and ...

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