# AJAX and Pointbase tutorial?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ajax-and-pointbase-tutorial/222489>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [April 13, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ajax-and-pointbase-tutorial/222489 "2007-04-13T20:55:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ajax-and-pointbase-tutorial/222489/1 "2007-04-13T20:55:20Z")

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The following tutorial shows how to grab name suggestions based on text typed so far from an input file, but does anyone here know of where I can find a similar tutorial, but instead of getting suggestions from an input file, the suggestions are retrieved from a database file using pointbase. ie. user types letters while AJAX at the same time goes through a database file using SQL statements such as, SELECT \* from Names etc to show suggestions of words…

[http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/ajax\_example\_suggest.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/ajax_example_suggest.asp)