Could you please tell me where exactly added following script block.
isEmpty: function(data) {
if (data == 0) {
$("#result").html("No match found");
}
}
I am having same problem, but i don't want to show message, i just
want to simply hide layer.
On Jun 5, 4:20 pm, JohnT <jtra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. I've just started using jQuery Autocomplete a few weeks ago.
>
> While using jQuery, I found that I needed to know how many records
> were returned and also if the result set returned was empty. After
> searching the jQuery documentation I couldn't find any property or
> method that returned this value, so I've added that functionality
> myself and wanted to share it with the group.
>
> 1) Determine the number of records returned:
>
> I wanted to show the user how many results were returned after they
> start typing into the autocomplete field similar to how Google
> indicates the number of results found when you start typing in the
> search box.
>
> At first I thought the max parameter in the function formatItem
> returned this value. However, it returns the max option that you set
> it to. So if your query returns 100 records and you set max to 25,
> it'll obviously return 25 (not what I wanted).
>
> So after trying various things, I looked at the jQuery code and simply
> added the number of records returned by the database to the
> formateItem function. In the fillList() function around line 660 I
> added the data.length parameter:
>
> var formatted = options.formatItem(data[i].data, i+1, max, data
> [i].value, term, data.length);
>
> And in my autocomplete code, I added the parameter to the end of the
> param list:
>
> formatItem: function(data, i, total, value, searchTerm, totalResults)
>
> So now whenever a new search is preformed, I get back the number of
> search result from the database.
>
> 2) Determine if a result set returned was empty
>
> I wanted to update a <div> with a message like "no records found"
> whenever the query yielded no results. Again, after searching the
> jQuery documentation, I couldn't find any property or method that
> would indicate this so I added it to the code.
>
> In the request function after the line var data = cache.load(term); I
> added the following:
>
> if (!data) {
> options.isEmpty(0);
> } else {
> options.isEmpty(data.length);
> }
>
> And in my autocomplete code, I added the following:
>
> isEmpty: function(data) {
> if (data == 0) {
> $("#result").html("No match found");
> }
> }
>
> Hope this helps others. Since I am new to jQuery I'd appreciate any
> feedback especially if there is a better way to do this.
>
> Thanks
> John
