Question

I am very new to jQuery and javascript. I have an autocomplete box setup (from jQuery UI). After the user selects his value from the search box, how do I pass that value to another php page (ie getmatches.php, which will look up that value in our database). I have:

$(function(){
      $("#my_cell").autocomplete({
      source: "autocomplete.php",
      minLength: 1,
          delay: 0, 
      select: function (event, ui) {
          // what goes here?    

      }
     });
    });

Answer 1

you can either attach a get param to url like this:

source: "autocomplete.php?param_name=" + document.getElementById("myfield").value,

but I think the $.autocomplete plugin function may provide API for sending parameters to backend, I think you should read documentation for it, in most cases docs specify everything you need