Material Bootstrap Autocomplete Search Form - How to create PHP forms easily

Php Form Builder - Search Form
with JSON or Ajax autocomplete

About Material Design, Bootstrap & Materialize

PHP Form Builder's Material Forms can be built with Bootstrap 4 or Materialize framework.

Bootstrap Material Forms

Bootstrap 4 is the framework used as the main css on your page
Material Design is a customized version of Materialize framework containing only the minimal css/js required for forms.
These forms are using PHP Form Builder's materialize plugin

Pure Material Forms

Materialize is the framework used as the main css on your page
These forms don't use any extra plugin

Detailed explanations here: Material Design Forms

Autocomplete plugin - documentation here

<?php

use phpformbuilder\Form;

/* =============================================
    start session and include form class
============================================= */

session_start();
include_once rtrim($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) . '/phpformbuilder/Form.php';

/* =============================================
    validation if posted
============================================= */

if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
    // check which form has been posted

    if (isset($_POST['search-form-1']) && Form::testToken('search-form-1') === true) {
        Form::clear('search-form-1');
    } elseif (isset($_POST['search-form-2']) && Form::testToken('search-form-2') === true) {
        Form::clear('search-form-2');
    } elseif (isset($_POST['search-form-3']) && Form::testToken('search-form-3') === true) {
        Form::clear('search-form-3');
    }
}

/* ==================================================
    The Form
================================================== */

$form = new Form('search-form-1', 'vertical', 'class=mb-5, novalidate', 'material');
$form->setMode('development');

// materialize plugin
$form->addPlugin('materialize', '#search-form-1');


$form->startFieldset('1<sup>st</sup> Search Form - search in json list');

$addon = '<button class="btn btn-primary waves-effect waves-light" data-ladda-button=true" data-style="zoom-in" type="submit"><i class="fas fas fa-search" aria-hidden="true"></i></button>';
$form->addAddon('search-input-1', $addon, 'after');
$form->addHelper('Type for example "A"', 'search-input-1');
$form->addInput('text', 'search-input-1', '', 'Search something:', 'placeholder=Search here ...');

$form->endFieldset();

$src = [
    'src' => ["ActionScript", "AppleScript", "Asp", "BASIC", "C", "C++", "Clojure", "COBOL", "ColdFusion", "Erlang", "Fortran", "Groovy", "Haskell", "Java", "JavaScript", "Lisp", "Perl", "PHP", "Python", "Ruby", "Scala", "Scheme"]
];
$form->addPlugin('autocomplete', '#search-input-1', 'default', $src);

$form->addPlugin('ladda', '#search-form-1 button');

/* 2nd form (Ajax search) */

$form_2 = new Form('search-form-2', 'vertical', 'novalidate', 'material');
$form_2->setMode('development');

// materialize plugin
$form->addPlugin('materialize', '#search-form-1');


$form_2->startFieldset('2<sup>nd</sup> Search Form - search with ajax request');

$addon = '<button class="btn btn-primary waves-effect waves-light" data-ladda-button="true" data-style="zoom-in" type="submit"><i class="fas fas fa-search" aria-hidden="true"></i></button>';
$form_2->addAddon('search-input-2', $addon, 'after');
$form_2->addHelper('Type at least 2 characters', 'search-input-2');
$form_2->addInput('text', 'search-input-2', '', 'First name:', 'data-threshold=2, placeholder=Search here ...');

$form_2->endFieldset();

$src = ['src' => 'search-form-autocomplete/complete.php'];

$form_2->addPlugin('autocomplete', '#search-input-2', 'ajax', $src);

$form_2->addPlugin('ladda', '#search-form-2 button');

/* 3rd form (Ajax search with select multiple & tags) */

$form_3 = new Form('search-form-3', 'vertical', 'novalidate', 'material');
$form_3->setMode('development');

// materialize plugin
$form->addPlugin('materialize', '#search-form-1');


$form_3->startFieldset('3<sup>rd</sup> Search Form - Ajax search with multiple tags results');

$addon = '<button class="btn btn-primary waves-effect waves-light" data-ladda-button="true" data-style="zoom-in" type="submit"><i class="fas fas fa-search" aria-hidden="true"></i></button>';
$form_3->addAddon('search-input-3', $addon, 'after');
$form_3->addHelper('Type at least 2 characters', 'search-input-3');
$form_3->addInput('text', 'search-input-3', '', 'First name:', 'data-multiple-choices=true, data-placeholder=Search here ...');

$form_3->endFieldset();

$replacements = [
    'remote' => 'search-form-autocomplete/complete.php',
    'minLength' => '2'
];

$form_3->addPlugin('autocomplete', '#search-input-3', 'ajax', $src);

$form_3->addPlugin('ladda', '#search-form-3 button');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">

<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
    <title>Material Bootstrap Autocomplete Search Form - How to create PHP forms easily</title>
    <meta name="description" content="Material Bootstrap Form Generator - how to create an autocompleting Search Form with Php Form Builder">
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.phpformbuilder.pro/templates/material-bootstrap-forms/search-form.php" />

    <!-- Bootstrap 4 CSS -->

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-MCw98/SFnGE8fJT3GXwEOngsV7Zt27NXFoaoApmYm81iuXoPkFOJwJ8ERdknLPMO" crossorigin="anonymous">

    <!-- Font awesome icons -->

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.15.4/css/solid.css" integrity="sha384-Tv5i09RULyHKMwX0E8wJUqSOaXlyu3SQxORObAI08iUwIalMmN5L6AvlPX2LMoSE" crossorigin="anonymous">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.15.4/css/fontawesome.css" integrity="sha384-jLKHWM3JRmfMU0A5x5AkjWkw/EYfGUAGagvnfryNV3F9VqM98XiIH7VBGVoxVSc7" crossorigin="anonymous">
    <?php
    $form->printIncludes('css');
    $form_3->printIncludes('css');
    ?>
</head>

<body>

    <h1 class="text-center">Php Form Builder - Search Form<br><small>with JSON or Ajax autocomplete</small></h1>

    <div class="container">
        <?php
        // information for users - remove this in your forms
        include_once '../assets/material-bootstrap-forms-notice.php';
        ?>

        <div class="row justify-content-center">

            <div class="col-md-11 col-lg-10">
                <div class="text-center mb-5">
                    <a href="https://www.phpformbuilder.pro/documentation/javascript-plugins.php#autocomplete-example" class="btn btn-secondary btn-sm"><strong>Autocomplete plugin</strong> - documentation here <i class="fas fa-arrow-right ml-2"></i></a>
                </div>
                <?php
                $form->render();
                $form_2->render();
                $form_3->render();
                ?>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

    <!-- jQuery -->

    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.min.js" integrity="sha256-/xUj+3OJU5yExlq6GSYGSHk7tPXikynS7ogEvDej/m4=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

    <!-- Bootstrap 4 JavaScript -->

    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.3/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-ZMP7rVo3mIykV+2+9J3UJ46jBk0WLaUAdn689aCwoqbBJiSnjAK/l8WvCWPIPm49" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    <script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.3/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-ChfqqxuZUCnJSK3+MXmPNIyE6ZbWh2IMqE241rYiqJxyMiZ6OW/JmZQ5stwEULTy" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

    <?php
    $form->printIncludes('js');
    $form_3->printIncludes('js');
    $form->printJsCode();
    $form_2->printJsCode();
    $form_3->printJsCode();
    ?>
</body>

</html>

Php Form Builder - Search Formwith JSON or Ajax autocomplete

PHP Form Builder's Material Forms can be built with Bootstrap 4 or Materialize framework.

Bootstrap Material Forms

Pure Material Forms

Php Form Builder - Search Form
with JSON or Ajax autocomplete