New from PHPRiot.com today is this new tutorial on a method to clone Google Suggest with AjaxAC.

This article covers how to implement a system such as Google Suggest using JavaScript, CSS and PHP.

To aid us in this process we will be using AjaxAC, an open-source framework written in PHP used to develop AJAX style applications. This is being developed with version 0.4 of the framework. We will aim to keep this article up-to-date with the latest version of AjaxAC, as its interface is likely to change before its first stable release.

As they step through each aspect of the recreation, they explain what AJAX is, how it works, and what kind of a role it plays in the Google Suggest kind of application. The AjaxAC class makes this as simple as attaching "widgets" to the AJAX connection and calling a loadJsApp function to make the call...