Re: Live Search

On 5-Dec-09, at 4:09 AM, Hannes Magnusson wrote:

Thanks Hannes, this is helpful. Rendering the docs would be a good exercise. Can you point me in the right direction?

http://wiki.php.net/doc/phd

Hi Hannes, I was able to build the docs and make use of the PHD database as you suggested. PHD worked great BTW :) ...I have posted a version of the search-api script to pastebin: http://pastebin.com/m2da3e823 This version runs much faster than the manual-lookup.sqlite version, but still about 50% slower than the original, averaging ~48ms/request. I don't know how this would perform on the mirrors. Based on my earlier tests, maybe around 150ms. Playing with other sites that do auto-complete (Google, Apple, Hulu, Bing) I found response times typically between 30-90ms. Should we go with this direction or the (dumber) faster version that doesn't use a database? It might be worthwhile to put together some of the front-end pieces and try it out. There is no longer an official autocomplete plugin for jQuery (as of 1.7), but this one (http://plugins.jquery.com/project/autocompletex) looks promising. Stew