Question

I know that jquery ui use ‘term’ for filter data.
my problem is : how if i want to use multi field for filter data?
city as param1, and name as param2.
here is my autocomplete.

city='Jakarta';
$('#txt_name').autocomplete({
  source:path+'get_person.php?country='+city,
  select:function(event, ui){
    alert(ui.item.name);
  }
});

thank’s before.

Answer 1

Your first parameter will be used as the filter and passed along as 'term'. You can additionally pass other parameters via the URL, assuming they are accessible dynamically like so:

$('#txt_name').autocomplete({
  source:path+'get_person.php?city='+$("#city").val()+"&name="+$("#name").val(),
  select:function(event, ui){
    alert(ui.item.name);
  }
});

Where your form contains two input elements ID’d as 'name' and 'city'.

Then, in your script that performs the query, you’d have access to the filter with $_GET['term'], and access to your city and name variables with $_GET['city'] and $_GET['name'], respectively.

Of course, it looks like you will be searching for a person and filtering by their name? In that case, you don’t even have to pass along &name=... as term will contain the filter data you are looking for.