Laura,
I have already looked at the Location module and it
isn't quite what I want, although I may revisit it. This is going to be a global
site and the txt files available are not complete. Once I have a basic
Profile/Register page set up with autocomplete working to gather users' towns, I
may look to Location as a additional tool but it isn't complete enough (yet) to
do what I want. Maybe I didn't spend enough time on it.
My original idea was to use dependent dropdowns as
a way of avoiding free text boxes and cut down on misspellings, etc. It seems
nye on impossible to get effective dependent dropdowns set up on Drupal and we
have been pulling our hair out over the DependantDropdown module which is buggy
and with zero documentation. So now our attention has turned to this
autocomplete idea as long as we can pre-populate and if possible, add other info
(such as state) to the dropdown itself once a user starts typing.
Thanks for your response.
Neil
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:47
PM
Subject: Re: [support] More effective use
of auto-complete in Profile
On Mar 7, 2007, at 4:58 AM, Neil: esl-lounge.com wrote:
Unfortunately, I have a selection of 23,000 towns so that is not
practical.
Isn't there a way of getting the autocomplete to "look" in a
different table
for values?
I wonder if it might be more direct to build off of the location module
as it already works with user profiles and has this info in the us zipcodes
table (albeit with some cities listed multiple times, listed once for each zip
code contained within). Then the issue is doing the autocomplete ajaxy
interface with otherwise existing functionality. Or am I missing
something?
Laura
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