how can I call a php function when value is typed in textbox?

Asked Aug 19 '15 at 09:27

Active Oct 13 '15 at 19:37

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I want to do an auto completion using Firefox's suggestions. Is it possible to call a php function while typing a keyword ? Is there any better way to do it?

 public function stealSearchGoogle(){ 

    $lang  = 'fr';
    $query = 'developeur';
    $url   = 'http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?output=firefox&client=firefox&hl=' . $lang . '&q=' . urlencode($query);

    $ch    = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1");
    $data = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    $suggestions = json_decode($data, true);

    if ($suggestions) {
        //echo 'suggestions: ';
        foreach ($suggestions as $value) {
            return($value);
        }

    }
}

edited Oct 13 '15 at 19:37

Captain Obvlious

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asked Aug 19 '15 at 09:27

Hafsa

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possible duplicate of [using jquery $.ajax to call a PHP function](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2269307/using-jquery-ajax-to-call-a-php-function) – Sougata Bose Aug 19 '15 at 09:33
I want the suggestions to appear while typing my keyword – Hafsa Aug 19 '15 at 09:39
Then look for jquery event `keyup`, `keypress`. – Sougata Bose Aug 19 '15 at 09:52
I think you are looking for AJAX. Please follow this link: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ajax_php.asp You can modify the given example on this link to your problem statement. – Domain Aug 19 '15 at 10:53
@b0s3 `input` event is better. – Niet the Dark Absol Oct 13 '15 at 19:53

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