I need to to do autocomplete suggestion for my website and the data should be retrieved from database. I want to use JQuery autocomplete. here is my code but it doesn't work! This is my php file with the name of gethint.php:
<?php
require_once ('config.php');
$q=$_REQUEST["q"];
$sql="SELECT `fname` FROM `Property` WHERE fname LIKE '%$q%'";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
$json=array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$json[]=array(
'value'=> $row['fname'],
'label'=> $row['fname']
);
}
echo json_encode($json);
?>
and then this is my html file :
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.18/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#hint").autocomplete({
source:'gethint.php',
minLength:1
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form class="sansserif" action="view.php" method="post">
Name: <input type="text" id="hint" name="hint" >
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="View">
</form>
</html>
It took a lot of time but I couldn't find the problem. I was wondering if someone could help me. Thanks.
I did some changes, maybe you need to fix something but take a look to see if helps...
The php:
<?php
require_once ('config.php');
$q=$_REQUEST["q"];
$sql="SELECT `fname` FROM `Property` WHERE fname LIKE '%$q%'";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
$json=array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
array_push($json, $row['fname']);
}
echo json_encode($json);
?>
The html+jquery:
<html>
<head>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.1/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" />
</head>
<body>
<form class="sansserif" action="view.php" method="post">
Name: <input type="text" id="hint" name="hint" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="View">
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$( "#hint" ).autocomplete({
source: function( request, response ) {
$.ajax({
url: "gethint.php",
dataType: "jsonp",
data: {
q: request.term
},
success: function( data ) {
response( data );
}
});
},
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Your PHP script should be accepting a term parameter, not q.
<?php
require_once ('..\config.php');
$q=$_REQUEST["term"];
$sql="SELECT `fname` FROM `Property` WHERE fname LIKE '%$q%'";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$json[]=array(
'value'=> $row['fname'],
'label'=> $row['fname']
);
}
echo json_encode($json);
?>
All I changed was the $_REQUEST["q"] to $_REQUEST["term"].