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
Try following code...
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.10.1/themes/base/minified/jquery-ui.min.css" type="text/css" />
<p><label>Country:</label><input type='text' name='country' value='' class='auto'></p>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.1/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function()
{
$(".auto").autocomplete({
source: "autocomplete.php",
minLength: 1
});
});
</script>
<?php
mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "")or die("cannot connect");
mysql_select_db("test")or die("cannot select DB");
$query = $_GET['term'];
$mysql_query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE name LIKE '%{$query}%'");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($mysql_query))
{
$array[] = $row['name'];
}
echo json_encode ($array);
// create search.php
<?php
$dbHost = 'localhost';
$dbUsername = 'root';
$dbPassword = '';
$dbName = 'company_db';
//connect with the database
$db = new mysqli($dbHost,$dbUsername,$dbPassword,$dbName);
//get search term
$searchTerm = $_GET['term'];
$query = $db->query("SELECT * FROM employee WHERE name LIKE '%".$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
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Autocomplete textbox </title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<script>
$(function() {
$( "#typeahead" ).autocomplete({
source: 'search.php'
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="ui-widget">
<label for="typeahead">Employee name: </label>
<input type="text" id="typeahead" data-provide="typeahead" size="30">
</div>
</body>
</html>
you need to bind your input to the onchange action
Use this
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#typeahead").change(function(event){
var query = document.getElementById('typeahead').value;
jQuery.ajax({
url: 'autocomplete.php',
type:'POST',
data:{'query':query},
dataType: 'JSON',
cache:false,
success:function(data){
// Do Anything You want here
},
error:function(){
// Do something else here
}
});
});
});
You haven't explained what exactly happend on that code but I think it is better to use this lib e.g. https://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/. There should be some examples of using this inside that package.