Question

Where can you download this example?
http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/#remote

jQuery doesn’t make the PHP available, so I don’t know how to structure the data or how to use it.

I don’t see a download button on the page or any instructions on how the PHP should be built to integrate with jQuery UI, I’m not sure why their website doesn’t make it easy for developers.

Answer 1

I think I found a great resource
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/how-to-use-the-jquery-ui-autocomplete-widget/

Here’s the document from that site

<?php

    //connection information
    $host = "localhost";
    $user = "root";
    $password = "your_password_here";
    $database = "test";
    $param = $_GET["term"];

    //make connection
    $server = mysql_connect($host, $user, $password);
    $connection = mysql_select_db($database, $server);

    //query the database
    $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM friends WHERE name REGEXP '^$param'");

    //build array of results
    for ($x = 0, $numrows = mysql_num_rows($query); $x < $numrows; $x++) {
        $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query);

        $friends[$x] = array("name" => $row["name"]);       
    }

    //echo JSON to page
    $response = $_GET["callback"] . "(" . json_encode($friends) . ")";
    echo $response;

    mysql_close($server);

?>