James,
The secret there would be to set a minChars value to 5. There's no sense in guessing towns on the first number of a zip code. Autocomplete should make things faster for the user, but trying to guess towns from a severely incomplete zip code isn't doing them any favors. You don't want to let the user interact with a list of possibilities until the subset of choices is narrowed down to a reasonable level. -khoker On Apr 17, 8:00 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found the JQuery and Dan's plugin for auto complete mod today and > was just what I was looking for, I have a form where I ask the user to > enter there town or postcode ( ZIP code) and then it will auto > complete the form. My problem that I found using a cold fusion page is > that held a massive array of towns I got a nice error message of "Code > of a method longer than 65535 bytes" this is due to the class file > that is being created is to big. I know that it was not very smart to > try and enter 20,000 towns in to an array but I am not a real coder :- > ( what would be the correct way to hold all of this data ? XML ? SQL > (SQL to slow) I saw yellowpage.com.au has a nice auto complete form > for the location part and I guess I am trying to replicate some thing > like that.
