search as you type on trackers

[jason1337]

is it something like this ?

[hijump]

no .. they have some automated search .. no press the enter buton

[BlackKnight]

hey mates, could someone give a pic of it. I'm really curious what it is but I'm not in those trackers

is it more comfortable?

[hijump]

the system is like automated one .... no press the enter buton ...

[Brenya]

i just noticed that softmp3 implemented a search as you type feature. a dynamic real-time search.

I've seen something similar on TPB. Their multi-page comments aren't divided into distinct webpages or web addresses. You just click on the page you want to view, they show this "Loading..." message, and then the new comments are displayed.

It saves time and bandwidth, but you can't bookmark or load a particular page of the comments (except the first, you know). Same with the searches in softmp3, which could be a drawback.

When I learned PHP, they told us bookmarking was the main reason to use the "GET" method:

<form action="/path/to/receiver.html" method="GET">

instead of the POST. For those who don't know, the GET method sends the variables of the form and their values through the http address. Each variable is a name of an input field:

<input type="text" name="search" value="type your search here" />

and the value is the input. Maybe that's why google uses it.

hxxp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bittorrent&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

It looks like hl means language, whose value is en. That tells the server to display the english version, I guess. The q variable probably stands for query. I "queried" bittorrent. I don't know the rest. But yeah, they are probably from the GET method, although they don't have to be...

So now is the million-dollar question: How do they do it?

[Polarbear]

probably some combination of an ajax live search and a xmlhttprequest call.

i'm not a coder, i don't care. i'm just interested in results.

i just wanted to point out that this was the first time i've seen a text live search for a whole browse page on a torrent site. not just search suggestions in the search box. no explicit submission is required. the results are ready almost immediately. there's no page reload. results are updated, but the input query is completely unaffected.