Question

I am trying to implement eBay autosuggest in an opera extension using jQuery autocomplete.

eBay’s JSON URL is: http://anywhere.ebay.com/services/suggest/?v=jsonp&q=test

And this is what it gives:

["test",["tube tester","testosterone","battery tester","tester","diamond tester","testoni","one touch ultra test strips","testors"]]

But it doesn’t parse anything. What I’m I missing?

Answer 1

With a php file which handle the json call.

Here is the javascript :

$("input").autocomplete({
  source: function(request, response) {
    $.ajax({
        url: "ajax.php",
        dataType: "json",
        data: {
          "v" : "jsonp",
          "q" : request.term
        },
        success: function (data) {
                 response(data[1]);
        }
    });
  }
});

and the ajax.php

<?php
    $v = $_GET['v'];
    $q = $_GET['q'];

    echo file_get_contents("http://anywhere.ebay.com/services/suggest?v=$v&q=$q");
?>

I assume jQuery ajax() doesn’t support “jsonp” datatype, because it was the problem all along.
You still have the same response in json though.