I truly want to help in a detailed way, but you asked too many questions. :)
*Where to start:* http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page *Plugins:* http://jquery.com/plugins/ *Tutorial Blog: *http://www.learningjQuery.com (also a book) *Some basic samples:* http://www.commadot.com/jquery Take a few moments to peruse those pages and you will find it answers most of your questions. Glen PS. The first one sounds like the autocomple plugin. http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-autocomplete/ On Nov 20, 2007 3:50 AM, TunaSandwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello Everyone, > > I just hopped on the jQuery bandwagon and I'm working on the following > functionality so if there are any examples or tutorials that do > anything like this I'd love to hear about them. I realize I will > eventually figure all this out but if anyone knows of any working > models, examples that are close to what I want or a list of what > methods to study would be greatly appreciated because it would speed > things up. (And that's what we're all here for right? �� ) > > Type 'n List: > I would like to type into a box. A list of links would appear just > below the box that will have been retrieved from the database using > AJAX. Ideally there would be a timer. The user starts typing and as > soon as they stop typing for say 900ms, then the links would be > retrieved from the database. If the user starts typing again, then > again the box isn't refreshed till they stop typing for 900ms. I have > done this often with Visual Basic or FoxPro and the trick there was to > have a timer that you reset whenever the user types. The logic for the > database refresh is in the timer event so it doesn't fire unless the > timer fires. I did this once in plain JavaScript and I used the > clearTimeout and setTimeout functions. > > Dynamo-List: > A list of links is inserted in a DIV. The list is refreshed by the > server every few seconds. When new items appear, they are inserted > rather than having the whole list refresh. I have seen the hide(500) > method and it would be nice is items appeared and disappeared in the > list using a similar effect. > > Dynamo-Check'em: > I have a list of a lot of check boxes so what I'd like to do is have a > text box at the top of the list. When the user types in the text box, > then the list of check boxes is refined by what the user types (based > on the name of the check boxes stored in a database). The user can > check the boxes. Once checked they always remain in the list > regardless of whether or not they meet the criteria. To make them > disappear, the user has to uncheck them. The reason they stay visible > once checked is so that the user can see which ones are checked > regardless of what's in the text box. For this control, the timer > pattern in the Dynamo-List above isn't as important because the number > of check boxes will not be very large. Perhaps a thousand at the outer > limit. The boxes the user has checked off should always be reflected > in the database. > > Expando-Show: > In a given list of items (anchor tags), I'd like to be able to hide > and show the description and other fields that go with each item. This > needs to be done two ways. One where the data is just hidden and shown > and the other where it is disposed of and loaded from the database as > required in real time. > > Scroll'm-Rollem: > Given say 100 items in a database, I'd like to show about 5 of them. > Every few seconds, I'd like to hide the bottom one and thin insert a > new one at the top. So it's like a scrolling list that runs on a > timer. When a user is hovering an item, we don't want to make it > disappear. I would like scroll-up and scroll-down links as well so > that the user can manually scroll the list. > > I'm using PHP and MySQL (I realize it doesn't matter what's at the > back end as long as the back end returns the same results). 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