Question

So im trying to populate an auto-complete search form from my database. Here is my php code that creates an array

    $leaders= mysql_query("SELECT model_name,model_id FROM models
             ORDER by model_name DESC");

while($leader=mysql_fetch_array($leaders)){
  $model= $leader['model_name'];
$modelid= $leader['model_id'];
    $name[] = array('label'=> $model, 'value'=> $modelid);

    $count = $count + 1;


}
$fp = fopen('results.php', 'w');
fwrite($fp, json_encode($name));
fclose($fp);

My problem lies somewhere within the jquery auto complete, the search form just returns a huge list of all the products in my json without filtering when the user types. My ideal goal would be to assign the value to the end of a url. Ex. “http://www.example.com/” + value

$(function() {
  $("#search").autocomplete({
    source: function(request, response) {
      $.ajax({
        url: "results.php",
        dataType: "json",
        data: { q: request.term },
        success: function(data) {
          response($.map(data, function(value,key) {
            return { label:value.label , value: value.value }
          }));
        }
      });
    },
    minLength: 2
  });
});

Thanks for the help

Answer 1

i think your query was worng. you must use like condition on your query

 mysql_query("SELECT model_name,model_id FROM models where model_name like '$_post[q]%'  ORDER by model_name DESC")

to fetch the particular selected result