Suggestion Dictionary - Project Description and Overview

This dictionary has been designed to offer word suggestions as you type in letters. It is modelled after the Google suggestion dictionary.

The suggestion dictionary uses the XMLHttpRequest and a mySQL database. The mySQL database stores the words and their definitions and also identifies if the word is a noun, adjective, etc. For copyright reasons, a very early version of a dictionary was used to populate the database because it was in the public domain.

An implementation of the suggestion dictionary can be found on the Dreams Resource Guide site. Click the "Dream Dictionary" link in the top navigation bar and then enter a letter in the Find Symbol field (you might have to wait a few seconds for the suggestions to appear because the database might be busy). The database of words and definitions can be anything -- it doesn't have to be a standard dictionary as the Dreams Resource example shows.

I chose to use a suggestion dictionary for the Dreams Resource site because the old search forced someone to enter a dream symbol and then click search just to find out if the symbol was in the database. Using a suggestion dictionary solves that problem because as you type, only the actual symbols in the database are offered.

Visit the Suggestion Dictionary.