Cloning Google Suggest With Ajaxac

Conclusion

In this article we developed a clone of Google Suggest from scratch, using AjaxAC, an open-source PHP framework for developing AJAX applications.

This application — GoogleSuggestCloneJax — is included as an example in the default AjaxAC distribution. For more information about all the technology used in this article, please see the references below:

References

• Google Suggest – The web application we’re cloning in this article
• AjaxAC – The PHP framework we’re using to help us
• The XMLHttpRequest Object – Documentation from Apple Developer Connection about using the XMLHttpRequest object
• AJAX Matters – An excellent resource for AJAX development information
• livehttpheaders plugin for FireFox

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