Ever since the big search engines added auto-suggest, hardly a week goes by without a client asking me to build similar autocomplete functionality into a Web form. Fortunately, modern programming toolkits like Dojo provide ready-made widgets that have the necessary client-side functions for autocomplete. Add a little bit of server-side glue, in the form of a PHP script that talks to a database to generate valid suggestions, and enabling this functionality in a Web application now becomes a matter of hours, rather than days. In this article, I’ll show you how to do this using three different libraries: PEAR HTML_QuickForm, YUI, and Dojo. Come on in, and find out more!

Roy Ganor has blogged about the integration between Zend Framework and Dojo. Take a look at the screencast, which demonstrates how these two toolkits can be used to quickly build a flexible and standards-compliant Web application. And if you're a Zend Studio for Eclipse user, the screencast also includes a neat overview of Zend Studio support for Dojo, including Dojo code widgets and themes, code assist and code navigation.

p. My buddy Alex is at it again. This time he has built an AJAX login form using HTML, Dojo, and the Zend Framework.