Question

I am testing this JQuery plugin “Tag-it” by Levy Carneiro in my ASP MVC application.

Website: http://levycarneiro.com/2010/03/tag-it-tag-suggestions-editor-and-autocomplete-in-a-jquery-ui-plugin/

I want the plugin to fetch tags that i have in my mssql database and i wonder how to connect to it if someone could help?

Now, my javascript looks like this:

$('#mytags').tagit({

   availableTags: ["c++", "java", "php", "coldfusion", "javascript", "asp", "ruby", "python", "c", "scala", "groovy", "haskell", "perl"]

 });

how should i write to connect to the address ‘/Questions/GetTags’ ?

Answer 1

JS

$.ajax({
   url: '/Questions/GetTags',
   dataType: 'json',
   success:function (data){
      //data should be a json object that returns an array
      $('#mytags').tagit({
        availableTags: data
      });
   }
});

PHP SERVER side or find asp equivalent

<?php 

$tag = array('json','java','javascript');
echo json_encode($tag);

?> 

To explain :

Your telling to fetch an ajax page, that returns a json object. and then you are telling that the input #mytags should be a tagit ui, and then the tag it should have the json object to be its tags availableTags