Oh, and use Dan's version, he squashed a few bugs and added cool things :-)
On 4/8/07, Dylan Verheul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.dyve.net/jquery/autocomplete.txt (sorry to be this brief, it's 5:50am here) On 4/7/07, Shelane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One more thing I forgot to mention. > > In this example here, I'm only returning 2 values within the found > data. There are cases where I might want to pass back 5 different > pieces of info (address, city, state, etc), but maybe only show 1 or 2 > of those items for the user to see in the drop down. Maybe I only > want one of those items to show in the autocomplete box once selected, > but I want to populate other hidden fields with the other pieces of > information (like my example). > > On Apr 7, 12:43 pm, "Shelane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I see examples but no actual documentation for this plug-in or the > > orignial from Dylan Verheul. I would love to get rid of my > > scriptaculous uses of autocomplete, but I have yet to figure out how > > to match what I do there with Dan's or Dylan's plug-in for jQuery. > > > > So my questions for these plug-ins: > > A, what are the minimum function calls to attach to a text field to > > make it an autocomplete; > > B, what is the expected format of the output results. > > > > With my current implementation of scriptaculous, I'm doing this: > > > > <script> > > function getSelectionId(text, li) { > > if (li==undefined || li.tagName != 'LI') return; > > var name = document.getElementsByClassName("name", li) > > [0].collectTextNodes().strip(); > > var oun = document.getElementsByClassName("oun", li) > > [0].collectTextNodes().strip(); > > document.myform.person.value = name; > > document.myform.relID.value = oun;} > > > > </script> > > > > <input name="person" type="text" class="Text3" id="person" /><input > > type="hidden" name="relID" /> > > <div id="container1" class="autocomplete"></div> > > <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" charset="utf-8"> > > new Ajax.Autocompleter("person", "container1", "includes/tools/ > > people.lasso?list=reps", {paramName: "query", minChars: 2, > > indicator:"indicator2", afterUpdateElement: getSelectionId}); > > </script> > > > > The results page returns this for each item found: > > <li><span class="name">my matched name</span><span class="oun">my oun</ > > span></li> > > > > Thanks for help :-) > > > > On Apr 5, 9:16 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Great. This is very good news. Thanks Dan. > > > > > Rp > > > > > On Apr 5, 10:40 am, "Dan G. Switzer, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > Randy, > > > > > > >For those using Dan Switzerautocompletemodule based on Dylan > > > > >Verheul's plug-in, how do the db calls work once a connection is > > > > >opened with the ajax option? For instance, if I set the minChars:2 and > > > > >type in Jo, it queries all cities that start with Jo. But what happens > > > > >as I contitue to type? Is Joh a new db call? And then Johns, another > > > > >call, and so on? Or is the initial call stored in chache? > > > > > > It's amazing how quickly you forget stuff--especially when you just modded > > > > someone elses code. :) > > > > > > First, theAutocompleteplug-in uses a keyboard delay before querying the > > > > server. This should avoid AJAX calls for each letter that's pressed > > > > (provided it's configured that way--which it's not by default.) > > > > > > By default, the library expects that if the user types in "Jo" that the AJAX > > > > call will return all possible matches for the string "Jo". Provided the > > > > results for the "Jo" call are still cached, there should be no additional > > > > server traffic for any phrases starting with "Jo". > > > > > > This can be controlled with the "matchSubset" option. By default this is > > > > turned on. If you set it to false (or 0,) then a new AJAX call would be made > > > > for "Jo", "Joh" and "John". > > > > > > Also, you may want to be aware of the "matchCase". By default this is set to > > > > false, so it's expecting the server to return case insensitive results. If > > > > this option was set to true, then the string "Jo" is not the same as "jo". > > > > > > Hope this helps! > > > > > > -Dan > >
