[jQuery] Re: [Autocomplete] - Doesn't always work
There are a few different autocomplete plugins out there. I'll assume you are using the one found at http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-autocomplete/ (which is the one documented at docs.jquery.com) The author, Jorn Zaefferer, is on this list often I've seen oddities like this with the plugin, but it pretty much always was a problem in how I was implementing the plugin. Or a potential problem with my server side code or local network. But I tend to do more than the absolute basics too, so I always assume it's my fault first.. :) Short of seeing some sample code, I'm not sure how much more I can help out... But hope that points you towards the solution somewhat. Shawn MeanStudios wrote: Greetings, I'm currently using this awesome plugin for my web app but I'm having a bit of an annoying bug with it. It sometimes does not pull up any results when typing in. Like if I have something in the database with the name March and I type in mar it shows the little loading.gif but then disappears and doesn't give me any results. If I tab away and come back to it and try it again, then it will work. And even that doesn't make it work. Sometimes I have to totally refresh the page. I thought it might be the cache mechanism so I turned that off setting cacheLength to 1. Any other ideas as to why it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't?
[jQuery] Re: [Autocomplete] - Doesn't always work
Shawn, yes, that is the plugin I am talking about. In Jorn's blog
post on Autocomplete he said to post here with [Autocomplete] in the
subject if having problems.
Here's the code I'm using:
$(#client_name).autocomplete(/ac/get_clients/, {
scroll: true,
scrollHeight: 300,
autoFill: true,
cacheLength: 1,
max: 20,
matchContains: false
});
I also have a .result(function(){}); running after that as well so I
can populate a form with the returned data from the autocomplete.
I'm using CodeIgniter as my php framework utilizing a library called
DataMapper which is an implementation of an ORM. Here's the function
I'm using to return the data:
function get_clients()
{
$c = new Client();
$c-get();
$q = strtolower($_POST['q']);
if ( ! $q)
return;
foreach ($c-all as $client) {
if (strpos(strtolower($client-name), $q) !== false) {
echo $client-name|$client-id\n;
}
}
}
On May 19, 5:36 pm, Shawn sgro...@open2space.com wrote:
There are a few different autocomplete plugins out there. I'll assume
you are using the one found
athttp://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-autocomplete/ (which
is the one documented at docs.jquery.com) The author, Jorn Zaefferer,
is on this list often
I've seen oddities like this with the plugin, but it pretty much always
was a problem in how I was implementing the plugin. Or a potential
problem with my server side code or local network. But I tend to do
more than the absolute basics too, so I always assume it's my fault
first.. :)
Short of seeing some sample code, I'm not sure how much more I can help
out... But hope that points you towards the solution somewhat.
Shawn
MeanStudios wrote:
Greetings,
I'm currently using this awesome plugin for my web app but I'm having
a bit of an annoying bug with it. It sometimes does not pull up any
results when typing in. Like if I have something in the database with
the name March and I type in mar it shows the little loading.gif
but then disappears and doesn't give me any results. If I tab away
and come back to it and try it again, then it will work. And even
that doesn't make it work. Sometimes I have to totally refresh the
page. I thought it might be the cache mechanism so I turned that off
setting cacheLength to 1.
Any other ideas as to why it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't?
[jQuery] Re: [Autocomplete] - Doesn't always work
I don't see anything tooo odd here. Here's what I would suggest though:
1. Call the autocomplete function a few times manually. Put the URL to
it in the browser's address bar and load the page a few times (you'll
need to switch your code to use $_GET though). Try to mix up the speed
of reloads, the data being passed, etc. IF you see any blank pages,
then you know the server side code is where the problem is at. But if
you always see output, continue debugging
2. Temporarily remove the .result() method just to ensure that is not
causing confusion somewhere. Commenting it out should be good enough.
3. Make sure you are using the most recent stable version of the plugin.
4. In your PHP code, where you are checking for no 'q' value and just
exit the function replace that return with something like
echo no criteria|0;
return;
Just to see if this condition is the problem area. Also, I'd probably
change the condition to be if (empty($q)) - which is a slightly
better check. That's a style thing though, so up to you
Now, with that out of the way... Your PHP code seems odd to me. Why
pull back ALL clients and then do a string comparison to sort out what
to show or not? It is MUCH faster/more efficient to let the database do
that filtering for you. Do you have control of the Client class? If
so, can you add a search method that takes the 'q' value as a criteria
for the name? But, the code as is *should* run, so take my comments as
constructive observations... :)
Shawn
MeanStudios wrote:
Shawn, yes, that is the plugin I am talking about. In Jorn's blog
post on Autocomplete he said to post here with [Autocomplete] in the
subject if having problems.
Here's the code I'm using:
$(#client_name).autocomplete(/ac/get_clients/, {
scroll: true,
scrollHeight: 300,
autoFill: true,
cacheLength: 1,
max: 20,
matchContains: false
});
I also have a .result(function(){}); running after that as well so I
can populate a form with the returned data from the autocomplete.
I'm using CodeIgniter as my php framework utilizing a library called
DataMapper which is an implementation of an ORM. Here's the function
I'm using to return the data:
function get_clients()
{
$c = new Client();
$c-get();
$q = strtolower($_POST['q']);
if ( ! $q)
return;
foreach ($c-all as $client) {
if (strpos(strtolower($client-name), $q) !== false) {
echo $client-name|$client-id\n;
}
}
}
On May 19, 5:36 pm, Shawn sgro...@open2space.com wrote:
There are a few different autocomplete plugins out there. I'll assume
you are using the one found
athttp://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-autocomplete/ (which
is the one documented at docs.jquery.com) The author, Jorn Zaefferer,
is on this list often
I've seen oddities like this with the plugin, but it pretty much always
was a problem in how I was implementing the plugin. Or a potential
problem with my server side code or local network. But I tend to do
more than the absolute basics too, so I always assume it's my fault
first.. :)
Short of seeing some sample code, I'm not sure how much more I can help
out... But hope that points you towards the solution somewhat.
Shawn
MeanStudios wrote:
Greetings,
I'm currently using this awesome plugin for my web app but I'm having
a bit of an annoying bug with it. It sometimes does not pull up any
results when typing in. Like if I have something in the database with
the name March and I type in mar it shows the little loading.gif
but then disappears and doesn't give me any results. If I tab away
and come back to it and try it again, then it will work. And even
that doesn't make it work. Sometimes I have to totally refresh the
page. I thought it might be the cache mechanism so I turned that off
setting cacheLength to 1.
Any other ideas as to why it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't?
[jQuery] Re: [Autocomplete] - Doesn't always work
Thank you very much for your reply! Lots of great ideas :).
I will let you know how it all turns out.
As for using the database to do the filtering, that is a great idea!
Yes, I have full control over the client class so it shouldn't be a
problem.
Best Regards!
On May 20, 7:45 am, Shawn sgro...@open2space.com wrote:
I don't see anything tooo odd here. Here's what I would suggest though:
1. Call the autocomplete function a few times manually. Put the URL to
it in the browser's address bar and load the page a few times (you'll
need to switch your code to use $_GET though). Try to mix up the speed
of reloads, the data being passed, etc. IF you see any blank pages,
then you know the server side code is where the problem is at. But if
you always see output, continue debugging
2. Temporarily remove the .result() method just to ensure that is not
causing confusion somewhere. Commenting it out should be good enough.
3. Make sure you are using the most recent stable version of the plugin.
4. In your PHP code, where you are checking for no 'q' value and just
exit the function replace that return with something like
echo no criteria|0;
return;
Just to see if this condition is the problem area. Also, I'd probably
change the condition to be if (empty($q)) - which is a slightly
better check. That's a style thing though, so up to you
Now, with that out of the way... Your PHP code seems odd to me. Why
pull back ALL clients and then do a string comparison to sort out what
to show or not? It is MUCH faster/more efficient to let the database do
that filtering for you. Do you have control of the Client class? If
so, can you add a search method that takes the 'q' value as a criteria
for the name? But, the code as is *should* run, so take my comments as
constructive observations... :)
Shawn
MeanStudios wrote:
Shawn, yes, that is the plugin I am talking about. In Jorn's blog
post on Autocomplete he said to post here with [Autocomplete] in the
subject if having problems.
Here's the code I'm using:
$(#client_name).autocomplete(/ac/get_clients/, {
scroll: true,
scrollHeight: 300,
autoFill: true,
cacheLength: 1,
max: 20,
matchContains: false
});
I also have a .result(function(){}); running after that as well so I
can populate a form with the returned data from the autocomplete.
I'm using CodeIgniter as my php framework utilizing a library called
DataMapper which is an implementation of an ORM. Here's the function
I'm using to return the data:
function get_clients()
{
$c = new Client();
$c-get();
$q = strtolower($_POST['q']);
if ( ! $q)
return;
foreach ($c-all as $client) {
if (strpos(strtolower($client-name), $q) !== false) {
echo $client-name|$client-id\n;
}
}
}
On May 19, 5:36 pm, Shawn sgro...@open2space.com wrote:
There are a few different autocomplete plugins out there. I'll assume
you are using the one found
athttp://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-autocomplete/(which
is the one documented at docs.jquery.com) The author, Jorn Zaefferer,
is on this list often
I've seen oddities like this with the plugin, but it pretty much always
was a problem in how I was implementing the plugin. Or a potential
problem with my server side code or local network. But I tend to do
more than the absolute basics too, so I always assume it's my fault
first.. :)
Short of seeing some sample code, I'm not sure how much more I can help
out... But hope that points you towards the solution somewhat.
Shawn
MeanStudios wrote:
Greetings,
I'm currently using this awesome plugin for my web app but I'm having
a bit of an annoying bug with it. It sometimes does not pull up any
results when typing in. Like if I have something in the database with
the name March and I type in mar it shows the little loading.gif
but then disappears and doesn't give me any results. If I tab away
and come back to it and try it again, then it will work. And even
that doesn't make it work. Sometimes I have to totally refresh the
page. I thought it might be the cache mechanism so I turned that off
setting cacheLength to 1.
Any other ideas as to why it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't?
