Autocomplete with ajax

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Hello

I would like to create a search-form so that after 2 or 3 typed characters the application starts making suggestions.
Should I use “jQuery UI Autocomplete” ([https://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/])
or rather “AJAX for CakePHP” ([https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-ajax])?
Or is there another possibility?
Please tell me what to prefer and why.

Thank you for your help.

I work with CakePHP 3.7.

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well, I have implement in jQuery ajax in search as key change in search box. If you want any plugin you can use it. ready-made plugin are also useful less implementation just install used it.

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Select2:
https://select2.org/data-sources/ajax

First create a function in the controller that search and return the results as json, request this function in the select2 ajax url

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Thank you very much for giving help.
It looks like “AJAX for CakePHP” ist not the preferred solution.

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“Ajax for CakePHP” does not directly provide autocomplete. It’s very useful, for what it does, but that’s not part of it.