Question

I have searched almost a month everyday for this. In some cases they use the $.ajax way, in others the $.post way. In jqueryui demo page for autocomplete http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/ you can see they have a simple understandable way of grabbing the data to show it to the user. Now here comes my problem. Am trying to do a simple, short way of grabbing a list of names from a mysql table. this is what i have right now:

JS

$("#usuario").autocomplete({
source: "search.php",
minLength: 3,
select: function( event, ui ) {}
});

PHP

$nameser = $_POST[‘usuario’];

$names = ”;

$result = mysql_query("SELECT name FROM characters WHERE name LIKE ‘%$nameser%’");

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $names .= "$row[name]"."
"; }

echo $names;

if i send info from the input box to php it returns the search pattern answer correctly But how do i attach the returned information to the autocomplete in a simple way.

The jquery documentation does not provide a simple way of doing it to a php remote file.

Answer 1

If you searched for a month and you haven’t find anything that must be some kind of miracle
searched 2 seconds find plenty of results

http://www.ajaxdaddy.com/demo-jquery-autocomplete.html

http://www.exploremyblog.com/html/blog_contents.php?blogid=300

http://www.thewhyandthehow.com/jquery-autocomplete/

there are millions of them
for your code i would do something like this

  $(document).ready(function(){
    $("#example").autocomplete("./search.php");
  });

try it

$nameser = $_GET['q'];

$names = '';

$result = mysql_query("SELECT name FROM characters WHERE name LIKE '%".$nameser."%'");

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $names .= $row[name]."\n"; }

echo $names;