Jquery Autocomplete after space press
- by Limpep
I am having an issue with my auto-complete feature such as when a user presses the space button the auto-complete doesn't show up again. Here is my code
script type="text/javascript">
function lookup(inputString) {
if(inputString.length == 0) {
// Hide the suggestion box.
$('#suggestions').hide();
} else {
$.post("autocomplete.php", { queryString: ""+inputString+"" }, function(data){
if(data.length >0) {
$('#suggestions').show();
$('#autoSuggestionsList').html(data);
}
});
}
} // lookup
function fill(thisValue) {
$('#tag').val(thisValue);
setTimeout("$('#suggestions').hide();", 200);
}
here my php code
<?php
require_once('config.php');
$db = new mysqli(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD,DB_DATABASE);
if(!$db) {
// Show error if we cannot connect.
echo 'ERROR: Could not connect to the database.';
} else {
// Is there a posted query string?
if(isset($_POST['queryString'])) {
$queryString = $db->real_escape_string($_POST['queryString']);
// Is the string length greater than 0?
if(strlen($queryString) >0) {
// Run the query: We use LIKE '$queryString%'
// The percentage sign is a wild-card, in my example of countries it works like this...
// $queryString = 'Uni';
// Returned data = 'United States, United Kindom';
$query = $db->query("SELECT name FROM tag WHERE name LIKE '$queryString%' ORDER BY name LIMIT 10");
if($query) {
// While there are results loop through them - fetching an Object (i like PHP5 btw!).
while ($result = $query ->fetch_object()) {
// Format the results, im using <li> for the list, you can change it.
// The onClick function fills the textbox with the result.
echo '<li onClick="fill(\''.$result->name.'\');">'.$result->name.'</li>';
}
} else {
echo 'ERROR: There was a problem with the query.';
}
} else {
// Dont do anything.
} // There is a queryString.
} else {
echo 'There should be no direct access to this script!';
}
}
?
Any help would be great, thanks.
