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Hi
Thank you for sharing this code.
I have one question… Can this be used in cases with 2 (or more) fields, each with its own ajax dataset?
Rds.

I just clicked your “SEE IT IN ACTION” link, and all that came up was binary data.

Hi,

Can you write your gsuggest to support json format?

Hello – Can you give more details on your suggest.cfc file? I’m not familiar with ColdFusion, but I would like to add this functionality to my site using PHP. What exactly should the server side (CF, PHP, .NET, etc.) look like?

Thanks for this work, it seems like it will be perfect for my application.

Hi,
I’ve a big trouble with your script. I cannot force it to work on my localhost (W7, Apache, PHP). I’ve done the following:
1. I’ve copied the example (“SEE IT IN ACTION”) to may local machine and named it index.html
2. I’ve also copied jquery-1.3.2.min.js and jquery.gsuggest.js and run the script with the ‘url’=http://www.micah-lacombe.com/utils/suggest.cfc and it’s OK in Firefox but not in IE8 and IE6 (XPMode)!
3. I’ve place a call to suggest.cfc in FF:
http://www.micah-lacombe.com/utils/suggest.cfc?method=gsuggest_customer&value=a&callback=?
and it has returned:
?(["Alejandra Camino","Alexander Feuer","Ana Trujillo","Anabela Domingues","André Fonseca","Ann Devon","Annette Roulet","Antonio Moreno","Aria Cruz","Art Braunschweiger"])
4. I’ve prepared local file ‘suggest.php’ that contained the above string:

5. It is not working! The string from suggest.php is always the same regardless of input:text value but even for ‘a’ it’s not working.

Any suggestions?

Regards,
Jacek

My suggest.php file:
echo ‘?(["Alejandra Camino","Alexander Feuer","Ana Trujillo","Anabela Domingues","André Fonseca","Ann Devon","Annette Roulet","Antonio Moreno","Aria Cruz","Art Braunschweiger"])’;

Hello,

Your are right: I’ve defined static script in PHP that always returns the same content for testing purposes only – IMHO as long as I enter a single ‘a’ letter in input field it should work but it doesn’t. So that’s why I asked you about the output format of your suggest.cfc script. Properly formated JSON array is like: ['A...','A...','...'] but it’s not working in this case, too.
So pls, tell me what the output format of AJAX data should be like?

BTW calling your script from other domain works in FF 3.6 but not in IE8 – I understand it it’s security issue.

Jacek

I get the following error:

JQuery is not defined
[Break on this error] })(JQuery);
jquery…gest.js (line 195)
jquery is not defined
[Break on this error] jQuery(document).ready(function(){jque…({‘url’:'scripts/getJudges.php’})});

The code is as downloaded. I am trying to call a php function.

query($sql);

$js[]=”";
while($row=mysql_fetch_row($result)){

array_push($js,$row);
}
array_shift($js);
$jcode=json_encode($js);

echo $jcode;

?>

Any chance of you putting this code on Github? It’d be great to have a place to check for possible future bug fixes. Thank you!

$(“input[suggest=yes]“).each(function(i){
if (this.id == null || this.id == ”)
$(this).attr(“id”, “_g��gg꧆_”+i)

just downloaded the file and it looks like some characters have turned into gremlins. getting an error on page load …

jQuery is not defined
[Break on this error] })(jQuery);
jquery…gest.js (line 195 )

How can i get this to fire the enter key when a suggestion is selected via mouse click? . . The enter key fires a keypress event which fires a defaultbutton.click event.

I’d like to get this to fire an enter key keypress event when a suggestion is selected via mouse click.

Firing the enter key will trigger the DefaultButton click for that focus area. Any help?

Hi Micah Lacombe,

On my local setup auto suggestion is working perfectly when I type a new letter,but when i type the same letter it does not show any suggestion.

url is : http://localhost:8080/velocity/auto which returns : jsonp1282306912797(["Carine Schmitt","Carlos Gonzalez","Carlos Hernndez","Catherine Dewey","Christina Berglund"])

ajax request is : http://localhost:8080/velocity/auto?method=gsuggest_customer&value=v&callback=jsonp1282306912797

when I compared my code with yours example I noticed &_=somedigits is missing from url.

Can you please tell me what going wrong here ?

Thanks
Arya

Hello,

your script is working great, but only when I place the array inline into the input field. Like “Jacek” it is very hard for me to make it work using Ajax call to php script. Finally I have made it work when I placed in the php file the following code:

Now it is showing me the list when I enter the “a” letter, but when I continue to type it “suggests” me everything, regardless of what I am typing. For example when I type “america” I am still able to see the string “Anabela Domingues”. In this case only the first seven letters from the “Anabela Domingues” string are not bold.

I am working for a few hours on this, and I eventualy will get it work soon, but please write some more information for the other php developers. I am sure that it will be very useful for them and I am confident that it really shouldn’t be so hard to make things work.

Thanks in advance!

Hi,
the code from the above post is :

print $_GET["callback"].’(["Alejandra Camino","Alexander Feuer","Ana Trujillo","Anabela Domingues","André Fonseca","Ann Devon","Annette Roulet","Antonio Moreno","Aria Cruz","Art Braunschweiger"])’;

I am writing it again, because it didn’t show up in my previous comment.

Best regards!

Hi again, I figure out everything. The problem from my first comment occured because I hardcoded the JASON array, so it will always appear the same. Now the script is working just fine. Thanks

Dale :
I get the following error:
JQuery is not defined
[Break on this error] })(JQuery);
jquery…gest.js (line 195)
jquery is not defined
[Break on this error] jQuery(document).ready(function(){jque…({’url’:’scripts/getJudges.php’})});
The code is as downloaded. I am trying to call a php function.
query($sql);
$js[]=””;
while($row=mysql_fetch_row($result)){
array_push($js,$row);
}
array_shift($js);
$jcode=json_encode($js);
echo $jcode;
?>

when I echo / print in PHP

this print
[["AMISANI SOEROSO"],["HAMID MUNDZIR"],["Aminudin Bisri"],["Fauzi Amin"]]
and nothing to show up
can you help me?

Great plugin. Had no problems installing or configuring this and it performs just as good as Googles autosuggest so thanks

@Stefan
wow, finally i get this working with your little snippet, thank you! the author should include a .zip file with all the files needed, because it looks like a lot of people are having a problem with what to put in the .php file or .cfc or whatever. I’m pretty new to all of this, and a .zip would have had me up and running instantly, but again it’s a situation where a developer thinks everyone knows exactly what he knows and doesn’t think about all the people who are a bit newer.

holy crap, it’s not even working, it’s displaying ALL of the reults even though i’m just typing LLLLLLLLLLL, and it’s saying that it’s matching ANABEL… RRRRRRRR WOW

Stefan :
Hi again, I figure out everything. The problem from my first comment occured because I hardcoded the JASON array, so it will always appear the same. Now the script is working just fine. Thanks

how did you get it working? i used the code you posted and it actually showed the suggest box this time, but if i keep typing the letter A, it will say it’s matching ALEX when i’m just typing AAAAAAA

trying to get ajax to work, if i type any character, all of the results are shown, but then if i delete that character and type it again, it will show the correct results. So if I press A, it will show all of the results, even “Benji” “Bon”, etc. but then if I push the backspace key on my keyboard, then type A again, it will correctly show only those results starting with the letter A, and it will work correctly, until I delete A, and with an empty input box i press B, then it will show all of the results again, but when i press the backspace key, then type B again, it will correctly only show those results starting with the letter B.

Do you know why this is happening?

For inline, it needs to be suggest_value, not suggestvalue.

Hello,

Is is possible to support searching in between string rather than searching only for the first character?

Say for example if i press ‘a’, it should display both apple and orange because both contains the character ‘a’.

Regards
krishna

while trying to use jquery.gsuggest.js in our application i’m getting an error
as “Object Doesn’t support this property or method” in the method
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
$(this).mousemove(function(e){ ———————>Line throwing Error

if ($.gsuggest.mousepos != e.pageX+’-'+e.pageY){
$.gsuggest.synctext = true;
$.gsuggest.mouseoverok = true;
}
$.gsuggest.mousepos = e.pageX+’-'+e.pageY;
});
})

Could any one please help?

Hi Micah,

I’ve been trying to get this to work for two days now. I can get the inline version to work with no problem. I’m trying to get AJAX to work with php. For the life of me, I just can’t seem to get a properly formatted JSON array out of php, even just trying to echo plain text. Obviously I’m doing something wrong. I was wondering if you could post a working php analog to suggest.cfc? If you could find the time, it would really be helpful.

It works great on a normal page, but when I try to use it on a page displayed within a JQuery UI Dialog box the drop-down appears offset from the input and although hovering the mouse over the selections changes the input to the correct value, when I select it, the input then returns to just what has been typed.

It seems the amount the drop-down is offset is similar to the centering distance of the dialog. I’m guessing it’s something to do with the css0 and css but whatever I change them to doesn’t seem to work. Any clues?

Hi,
first, this is great thanks.
I’m adding this to an ASP.NET app which was written in classic ASP.NET – I wondered how I deal with an AJAX call from gsuggest, can I pass the method as well as the aspx page. Would you provide a quick example please?
Thanks

Everything works fine, exept for 1 thing: the position! The box appears way off the page instead of hanging under the input field.

Does anyone know why?

great plugin! One question: We are running the gSuggest now in iFrame. When clicking the inputbox with the mouse, the cursor always jumps to the first position. This only happens with IE. Any clue?
(You can test with your own demo running in an iFrame)
Thanks.