Question

I know this is a bad title for my question but what i am trying to do is reply to Autocomplete http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Autocomplete#API_Documentation

Instead of getting many elements i only receive “Array”. I know this is obviously wrong bc of the way echo works but how do i echo in such a way this autocomplete works?

mydoc.html

$().ready(function() {
    $("#suggest3").autocomplete("reply.php", {
        multiple: true,
        mustMatch: true,
        autoFill: true
    });

});

reply.php

<?php
// Fill up array with names
$a[]="Anna";
$a[]="Brittany";
$a[]="Amanda";

  $response=$a;

echo $response;
?>

Answer 1

Send it as JSON or convert it to a string- otherwise php just prints the object type.

JSON:

echo json_encode($a);

Array:

echo implode(',',$a);