Yup. Using a database to store your information for display in a field
... even an AutoCompleter field ... is -- at least in my opinion -- kind
of the point of all this AJAX-y stuff. As for why your specific demo
doesn't work, I'm going to leave to someone else because I'm not
familiar specifically with how the AutoCompleter works, only with its
general purpose. If no one gets back to you, I'll play around with it
later and see what I can figure out.
-- Dash --
apparker wrote:
> So I can use 'getDBresults.php' as the url which creates an XML output
> from some SQL query? That'd be cool.
>
> Another question, why does the demo page's source say,
> "autocomplete="off"?
>
> And, the demo page doesn't have any parameters after the url:
> type="text/javascript">new Ajax.Autocompleter('contact_name',
> 'contact_name_auto_complete', '/ajax/auto_complete_for_contact_name',
> {})
>
> How does it know what to do?
>
> I've copied the contents of the demo into my own page and still cannot
> get it to work (pointing at a generic unordered list). My page keeps
> saying "ajax.autocompleter not valid constructor" or something. All
> of my js files are pointing to the correct places.
> www.parkereye.com/eye
>
>
> On Mar 28, 7:41 am, David Dashifen Kees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Technically, it doesn't matter what format it's in. As long as its
>> output is an unordered list you're good to go. For example, you could
>> use PHP to connect to a database and extract information about contact
>> names and then display them like this:
>>
>> <ul>
>> <li>Doe, Jane</li>
>> <li>Kees, David</li>
>> <li>Smith, John</li>
>> </ul>
>>
>> As long as your output is formatted thusly, the AutoCompleter should do
>> the rest. Therefore, you can use PHP, XML, ColdFusion, HTML, whatever,
>> as long as you have an unordered list when you're done.
>>
>> -- Dash --
>>
>> apparker wrote:
>>
>>> I'm still not sure what you mean by the url... the demo page's source
>>> says it is using "/ajax/auto_complete_for_contact_name". What file is
>>> this pointing to? It doesn't have an extension. Do I point it at an
>>> XML file? Text file? What format does it have to be in?
>>>
>>> On Mar 28, 2:20 am, Christophe Porteneuve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> apparker a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> I'm new to js and rails. I've created a page and i'm trying to
>>>>> implement the autocomplete. I do'nt know where the data comes from.
>>>>> The demo says it comes from "/ajax/auto_complete_for_contact_name" -
>>>>> what is that? I downloaded some of the files from scriptaculous and
>>>>> they have a url which is an html file that is in the shape of XML.
>>>>> Where exactly does the info come from that populates the div?
>>>>>
>>>> With Autocompleter.Local, it comes from a JS array in your page.
>>>> With Ajax.Autocompleter, it is provided by a URL in your app, which
>>>> takes one parameter (the default name is that of your text field, but
>>>> can be customized), and produces a <ul>/<li> list of results.
>>>>
>>>> It's all there, with all the necessary details:
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Ajax.Autocompleter
>>>>
>>>> The wiki also provides you with basic styling for that result, so you
>>>> obtain a decent aspect.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Christophe Porteneuve a.k.a. TDD
>>>> "[They] did not know it was impossible, so they did it." --Mark Twain
>>>> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>
>
>
> >
>
>
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