I have an array of street names sorted alphabetically that I have gathered from a web service. This array exists on the server side.On the client side, a user starts typing the name of the street he lives on and AJAX is used to return a list of the closest match to the partial street name, plus the next 9 street names in the array (the list is updated while he is typing).For example, if the user typed "al", I would expect the results to be something like the following:
Albany Hwy
Albens Vale
Alcaston Rd
Alex Wood Dr
Alice Rd
Allawah Ct
Allen Rd
Alloway Pl
Allwood Av
Alola St
Amanda Dr
This is my try at it:\[code\]$matches = array();for($i = 0; $i < count($streetNames); $i++){ if( (stripos($streetNames, $input) === 0 && count($matches) == 0) || count($matches) < 10 ){ $matches[] = $streetNames[$i]; } else { break; }}\[/code\]Does anyone else know a faster way?Please note: I have no control over how this list is obtained from the database - it's from an external web service.
