[jQuery] Re: Clickable autocomplete, like google

[theosoft]

My solution:

Since I'm using PHP 5.2+, I'm able to use the json_encode function
like this:

while($speaker = mysql_fetch_object($speaker_query)){
        $encodable[] = $speaker;
}

$encoded = json_encode($encodable);

echo $encoded;

Then, in the javascript function:

var searchurl = $("#speakerformsearch").attr('action');
                $("#speakersearchinput").autocomplete(searchurl,{
                        dataType: "json",
                        parse: function(data) {
                                        return $.map(data, function(row) {
                                                        return {
                                                                        data: 
row,
                                                                        value: 
row.text
                                                        }
                                        });
                        },
                        formatItem: function(item){
                                return item.Title+" "+item.FirstName+" 
"+item.MiddleName+"
"+item.LastName;
                        },
                        formatResult: function(item){
                                return item.Title+" "+item.FirstName+" 
"+item.MiddleName+"
"+item.LastName;
                        }
                }).result(function(event, item){
                        location.href = "?id="+item.FacultyID;
                });

Works great! On, click of the item in the drop down, it takes me to
the URL. This might be what you want to look into. to solve your
problem.