PHP, MYSQL Autocomplete does not working

Question

I want to make auto complete text box for select employee names from the database. I don\'t have fair idea about that. But I tried to make it as following.

autocomplete

Answer 1

// create search.php

query("SELECT * FROM employee WHERE name LIKE '%".$searchTerm."%' ORDER BY name ASC");
while ($row = $query->fetch_assoc()) {
    $data[] = $row['name'];
}
//return json data
echo json_encode($data);
?>


// SQL

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `employee` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `name` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=26 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;

--
-- Dumping data for table `employee`
--

INSERT INTO `employee` (`id`, `name`) VALUES
(1, 'Ram'),
(2, 'Ravi'),
(3, 'Kumar'),
(3, 'Aaathava'),
(4, 'Sasi');

// End





  
  
  
  
  
  


 

  Employee name: