Updated March '08: I've separated the plugin to a separate jquery.hint.js file and included a fix to get around Firefox's autocomplete You will see a lot of web sites with search boxes have text already populated inside of the field and when you select the input text box it disappears and reappears when it’s not selected. This [...]

Update: due to popular demand, I've caved in, and written a plugin and demos with multiple-select boxes populating each other and driven from MySQL. View: Auto-populate multiple select boxes If you are familiar with using select boxes for categorisation and sub-categories, such as ebay does when selling an item, [...]

Following my accident a couple of weeks ago, I've now been blessed with a new MacBook Pro which needs setting up again. So, I thought I'd document setting up MySQL, PHP5 and Apache with multiple virtual hosts.