Question

Im using Jquery widget Autocomplete.My data source is a server-side script which returns JSON data.

$(function() {      
    $( "#supcode" ).autocomplete({
        source:"index.php/inventory/supcode",
        minLength: 1                    
    });
});

Im using MVC architecture (Codeigniter) and using following method in controller to return the JSON data,

function supcode()
{     
    $dataarray="";
    $data=$this->Inventorymodel->supcode();
    echo json_encode($data);
}

And I am fetching the data in model using following function,

function supcode(){
$finresult="";
$this->db->select('name');
$query = $this->db->get('supplier');
$result=$query->result_array();

foreach($result as $row){
    $finresult[]=array(
        'name' => $row['name']
    );
}
return $finresult;
}

When I type a letter in the textbox filtering is not working and all the items are listed.What have I done wrong here? Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance….

Answer 1

You need to complete the filtering on the server side (as stated in the comments to the question by @Henrik) and the Expected data format needs to be an array of objects with label and value as the fields.

[ { label: "Choice1", value: "value1" }, ... ]

See this link jQuery Autocomplete.