On Nov 11, 4:45 pm, alohaaaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

...

> I also can't get the results to show by just the first letter.  Say if
> the list contains coffee and frank, I type f and just want frank to be
> found, not coffee.  But it shows both frank and coffee.  Here is the
> link
>
> here is the php lookup
>
>         $sql = "SELECT UNIQUE_CUST_ID FROM test2 WHERE UNIQUE_CUST_ID LIKE
> '%" . $_POST['search'] . "%'";
>         $rs = mysql_query($sql);
> ?>

That's because you're telling it in the SQL to match any string
containing (not just starting with) the search string.

Change
 '%" . $_POST['search'] . "%'";
to
 '" . $_POST['search'] . "%'";

Colin

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