jQuery UI autocomplete: how to send post data?

Question

From jQuery UI site (veiw source):

$( \"#birds\" ).autocomplete({
    source: \"search.php\",
    minLength: 2,
    select: function( event, ui ) {
        log(          


        

Answer 1

The following worked well for me. I needed some custom data, so I pulled the search "term" term: request.term out of the request as follows:

  jQuery('.some-autocomplete').autocomplete({
    source: function(request, response) {
      jQuery.post(ajaxurl, {action: 'some_content_search', type: type, term: request.term}, response, 'json');
    },
    minLength: 2,
    ...