Question

I’m coding a new website to learn PHP, and coding, and am making an autosuggest that is populated by two mysql tables.

Heres my code (Yes, I’m using mysql, but I’ll rewrite this in mysqli once I find a solution!):

suggest.php:

require("./config.php");

$q = $_GET['q'];

$names = '';

$result = mysql_query("SELECT name FROM company WHERE name LIKE '$q%' UNION SELECT cat FROM cat WHERE cat LIKE '$q%' UNION SELECT subcat FROM subcat WHERE subcat LIKE '$q%' LIMIT 10"");

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

echo $names;
?>

index.php ( where the searchbox is)

<form class="form-search span8 offset6">
   <input type="text" id='search' name='q' class="input-medium search-query">
   <button type="submit" class="btn btn-warning">GO!</button>
</form>

later in index.php (I call jquery.js before):

 <script src="public/js/jquery-ui-1.8.22.custom.min.js" type="text/javascript"
charset="utf-8"></script>
<script>
    $(function () {
        $(document).ready(function () {
            $("#search").autocomplete("./suggest.php");
        });
    });
</script>

The rows I’m trying to populate my autosuggest are the subcat row from the subcat table, the name table from company table, and cat from cat table.

The autosuggest isn’t showing up? What’s wrong?

Thanks for all help!

Answer 1

Try sending JSON formatted data from php, like:

$names = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { 
    $names[] = $row['name']; 
}
echo json_encode($names);//format the array into json data