Autocompleter using javascript php

HTML & CSS
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Now i am using joomla as php CMS… I have to include an autocompleter in the form. Now thing is i have an array already stored with the values that i want to be shown in autocompleter…
So is it possible to have an autocompleter on php textbox which fetches values from array…

I tried search but all uses autocompleter fetching data from database but i hv already got the data in array… So just a javascript should suffice…

Please guide with tutorial or link to example with script or any suggestion which can help fulfill my requirement…

Thank you

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Are you using jQuery? If so, it’s quite easy:


	
	<script>
	$(function() {
		// this would be your array of data
		var availableTags = [
			"ActionScript",
			"AppleScript",
			"Asp",
			"BASIC",
			"C",
			"C++",
			"Clojure",
			"COBOL",
			"ColdFusion",
			"Erlang",
			"Fortran",
			"Groovy",
			"Haskell",
			"Java",
			"JavaScript",
			"Lisp",
			"Perl",
			"PHP",
			"Python",
			"Ruby",
			"Scala",
			"Scheme"
		];
		// this is the input that you want the autocomplete to work on
		$( "#tags" ).autocomplete({
			source: availableTags
		});
	});
	</script>

If you’re not using jQuery, it’s still not too difficult, but it’ll require some more work.

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Thank YOu for the prompt reply…

Well as such i am working on php CMS(Joomla) it uses mootools and using jquery with mootools did conflicted couple of times.

I tried this autocompleter with mootools
( AutoCompleter » digitarald:Harald Kirschner )
Above linked script runs fine when executed alone but when i include it inside the joomla website folder it stops workings…so i started looking after a solution with Javascript only