As I said before, if you need cross domain support for your callback you can modify the code to use JSONP.

Happy coding

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

Jacek,

Your file will always contain the same content because you defined a static JSON set i.e. ‘?([”Alejandra Camino…

Using my file as a remote call to test won’t work either. You need to have your class that returns the JSON on the same domain b/c gsuggest uses $.getJSON and not JSONP.

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

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms366735.aspx

I was thinking about this some more and realized I forgot to mention that you don’t really need to use a web service if you don’t want to. You can actually specify a separate file for each input by using a different config on each. If you take a look at the script you’ll see how to do this but if you get stuck or need a sample let me know.

I prefer to consolidate everything in one place (aka one file) because it keeps it easier to manage… but that all depends on how your software is engineered.

Brian,

Don’t be scared off by the CFC. It is essentially the same thing as an object in any other language. In this particular case however it is a remote object, aka a Web Service. You can create your own Web Service in cf, php, .net, etc. That having been said you could also implement it without object remoting by doing an evaluate on the appropriate url parameters… the only requirement here is that the data is returned to gsuggest in the correct format.

Here is the code for the CFC:

http://www.micah-lacombe.com/utils/suggest_cfc_code.cfm

Notice the comment at the bottom:


<!---
var method = obj.form.name + '_' + obj.name;
var surl = $.gsuggest.config.url + "?method="+method+"&value="+objval+"&callback=?";
--->


This is where gsuggest sets up the url to use during the ajax call. As mentioned in the main article, [method] is the name of the method which gets executed, and [value] is the value currently in the text box. CF uses [method] as part of its remote call, however other languages may be different…. so you can update gsugggest.js to reflect whatever type of url you need and even add multiple language options by enhancing the configuration. Also, [callback] is something jquery uses (so that is also required).

The data you return needs to be formatted in JSON:


"#callback#(#serializejson(listtoarray(valuelist(qcustomers.contactname)))#)">


This is outputing the value of [callback] as a function, hence the parenthesis. And the parameter value of that function is simply a JSON Simple Array. For further CFML Details, hit up google or ask me.

Good luck and let me know how it goes!