autocomplete shows all entries, Does not do any searching

Question

Please help me ... I\'m a newbie! Please tell me what to do.

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Answer 1

Autocomplete expects the source (when an URL is specified to filter out the results).

From documentation:

String: When a string is used, the Autocomplete plugin expects that string to point to a URL resource that will return JSON data. It can be on the same host or on a different one (must provide JSONP). The Autocomplete plugin does not filter the results, instead a query string is added with a term field, which the server-side script should use for filtering the results. For example, if the source option is set to "http://example.com" and the user types foo, a GET request would be made to http://example.com?term=foo. The data itself can be in the same format as the local data described above.

So in your PHP code you have to do:

include_once('../../dbConnect.inc.php');
$sql="SELECT name FROM artist WHERE `name` like '%".mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['term'])."%'";
$artist = select($sql);
$output_items = array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($artist)) {
    $results[] = array('label' => $row['name']);
}
echo json_encode($results);