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On Apr 21, 10:27 am, Tom Worster <f...@thefsb.org> wrote:
> On 4/20/09 10:35 PM, "James" <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Try:
>
> > $("#isearch").autocomplete("search_result.php", {
> > extraParams:{isearch:$("#isearch").val()},
> > width:542,
> > multiple: true,
> > matchContains:true,
> > cacheLength:0,
> > minChars:1,
> > delay:0
> > });
>
> i'm not sure that's going to help Pitt. your fragment will execute at page
> ready time and set the extra parameter "isearch" for subsequent searches to
> whatever the _initial_ value of the field happens to be, quite likely an
> empty string.
>
> if you want to send in an extra parameter an element's value at the moment
> the query is sent then you can use a function:
>
> $("#isearch").autocomplete("search_result.php", {
> extraParams:{isearch: function() { return $("#isearch").val(); }},
> ...
>
> but in this case it will result in queries with both paraneters "q" and
> "isearch" set to the same value, which seems rather pointless.
