Thursday, 14 August 2008

Auto-suggest without ColdFusion 8

I've been Googling on auto-suggest frameworks in ColdFusion, and EVERYONE assumes that you're using CF8. If you're maintaining an old site, and don't have the luxury of CF8, I can recommend this list of auto-suggest frameworks.

I had a good look at "mgBox", which is neat, but the data source aspect is a bit on the annoying side, being rather too verbose to seem elegant. I much prefer "Wick", which is easy to customise, and just uses a plain Javascript file as its data source. It only took a couple of hours to get it working with the .js file being generated from a SQL query via ColdFusion. All rather impressive! If you've seen any other frameworks that you like, then let me know.

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