Hi Guys I have this search from that takes a search term matches it with a table.field and in php it searches all matching data. I want to add autocomplete to it, can anyone PLEASE assist?
Here is the HTML FORM
<form action="'.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].'" method="post">
<input type="text" id="searchThis" name="searchThis" placeholder="search" value="" size="14" />
<select name="searchItems" id="searchItems">
<optgroup value="Vehicles" label="Vehicles">Vehicles
<option value="vehicles.Make">Make</option>
<option value="vehicles.model">Model</option>
<option value="vehicles.RegNumber">Registration Number</option>
<option value="vehicles.licenseExpireDate">License Expire Date</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup value="Owners" label="Owners">Clients
<option value="owners.OwnerName" label="" >Name</option>
<option value="owners.mobile">Mobile Number</option>
</optgroup>
</select>
<input type="submit" id="doSearch" name="Search" value="Search" />
</form>
<ul id="result">
</ul>
There is the JS
<script src="js/jquery-1.8.0.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var $j = jQuery.noConflict();
(function($j){
$j(document).ready(function (){
$j("#searchThis").keyup(function()
{
var searchThis = $j('#searchThis').val();
var searchItems = $j('#searchItems').val();
var dataString = {'searchThis': searchThis,'searchItems':searchItems};
if(searchThis!='')
{
$j.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "doAutocomplete_search.php",
data: dataString,
dataType: "html",
cache: false,
success: function(data)
{
$j("#result").html(data).show();
}
});
}return false;
});
$j("#result").live("click",function(e){
var clicked = $j(e.target);
var name = clicked.find('.name').html();
var decoded = $j("<div/>").html(name).text();
$j('#searchThis').val(decoded);
});
$j(document).live("click", function(e) {
var clicked = $j(e.target);
if (! clicked.hasClass("search")){
$j("#result").fadeOut();
}
});
$j('#searchid').click(function(){
$j("#result").fadeIn();
});
});
})($j);
And the PHP
function implement($cxn,$searchThis, $field) {
$show = "";
//Item to be searched
$srchThis = strip_tags(trim($searchThis));
//[0]= table , [1]=field to search
$srchStack = explode('.',$field);
$gtData = "SELECT * FROM ".$srchStack[0]." WHERE ".$srchStack[1]." like '%|{$srchThis}|%'";
//or die(mysqli_error($cxn))
if($selectc = mysqli_query($cxn,"SELECT * FROM {$srchStack[0]} WHERE {$srchStack[1]} LIKE '{$srchThis}%' OR {$srchStack[1]} LIKE '%{$srchThis}%'")) {
$srchData = array();
$rows = mysqli_fetch_row($selectc);
echo $rows;
//if() {, MYSQL_ASSOC
//echo var_dump($srchData);
$show .= '
<table style="border:2px solid #0000">';
//foreach($srchData as $fields=>$data) {
for($s=0; $s < $rows && $srchData = mysqli_fetch_assoc($selectc);$s++) {
if($srchStack[0] == 'vehicles' && $fields == 'RegNumber') {
$dataItem = $data;
$editTbl = 'Vehicles';
$link = 'href="index.php?list=vehicles&&tbl='.$srchStack[0].'&&item='.$dataItem.'"';
} elseif($srchStack[0] == 'vehicles' && $fields == 'Make') {
$dataItem = $data;
$editTbl = 'vehicles';
$link = 'href="index.php?list=vehicles&&tbl='.$srchStack[0].'&&item='.$dataItem.'"';
}
$show .= '<tr><td><a '.$link.'>'.$data.'</a></td></tr>
';
}
$show .= '</table>';
return $show;
} else {
$show .= "There are no entries in the database...<br>".mysqli_error($cxn);
return $show;
}
//}
}
echo implement($cxn, $_POST['searchThis'], $_POST['searchItems']);
$cxn->close();