Re: Another AJAX Autocomplete question

Thanks, I suppose I was thinking it was harder, or more integrated
than it was.

Using the info you gave me, I was able to get the example here
modified and working with my data.
http://blogfreakz.com/cakephp/cakephp-jquery-autocomplete-tutorial/

On Apr 23, 7:11 pm, cricket <zijn.digi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 3:25 PM, turbo2ltr <turbo2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I see there are a lot of questions about implementing AJAX
> > autocomplete, but I'll be dammed if every single thing on the subject
> > is woefully confusing or from the mid 2000s.
>
> > I go to the 1.3 cookbook under Ajax and right at the top is says
> > AjaxHelper is depreciated, then it goes on to talk about those same
> > things.  How can the latest version of cakePHP already be depreciated?
>
> It's not the latest version that's deprecated, a portion of it. Pretty
> normal for any software project.http://book.cakephp.org/view/1561/Migrating-from-CakePHP-1-2-to-1-3
>
> > I've tried about 8 different implementations of ajax autocomplete that
> > I've found on the web and could not get any of them to work...mostly
> > because they assumed I'm smarter than I am (not step by step
> > instructions, but code snippets or pseudo code), or they were written
> > for an out of date version of cake.
>
> > Prototype? Scriptalicious? JQuery?  WTF are we supposed to use?
>
> Pick your poison.http://book.cakephp.org/view/1596/Javascript-engine-usage#!/view/1594...
>
> I recommend jQuery.
>
> > Actually I did get this one to sorta work, sorta:
> >http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2006/06/06/autocompletion-the-easy-way/
>
> As you alluded to in the beginning, that's much to old to serve as
> anything but a hint. Cake has changed a lot.
>
> > The field I want to autocomplete is a vendor name.  But in the the
> > suppliers model, the vendor name is an ID to the vendors table.  The
> > autocomplete was returning the ID, not the name.  Sure it seemed easy
> > to implement, but it also seemed to be limited. I couldn't figure out
> > how to get the vendor name instead of the ID.
>
> Right, so from your Supplier model, you can do
> $this->Vendor->find(...). From your SuppliersController,
> $this->Supplier->Vendor->find(...)
>
> > So I beg of the community, can someone put up an up-to-date, step-by-
> > step tutorial on how to properly implement AJAX autocomplete??
>
> You needn't rely on a Cake helper to do this. The js side of it is
> just handling the change event on your select list by sending an ajax
> request to the server. There are several jQuery plugins built just for
> this. The Cake side of it is simply receiving a string and doing a
> find('list') with an, eg. "LIKE ${str}%" condition (be sure to check
> that input) and sending back a list of results. Use RequestHandler and
> create an ajax.ctp layout, then echo json_encode($res).

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