I was wondering about how to add the autocomplete JQuery UI widget to a form I'm developing in the Zend Framework without using ZendX. The folders for the website are set up per the framework, but I'm not using Zend_Form.
So I stripped everything down to the simplest form, which works:
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$("input#autocomplete").autocomplete({
source: ["best", "buy"]
});
});
</script>
<input id="autocomplete" />
But I have a PHP file that returns entries from a database in JSON. How do I use that instead?
I tried replacing the array with the name of the file, but then nothing happens.
Thanks!
this should work for you:
// js stuff
$( "input#autocomplete" ).autocomplete({
source: "http://localhost/application/index/autocomplete"
});
//IndexController.php
/**
* Return AutoComplete stuff
*/
public function autocompleteAction()
{
// disable view and layout, we want some fanzy json returned
$this->_helper->layout()->disableLayout();
$this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNoRender(true);
$values = array('best', 'buy');
$valuesJson = Zend_Json::encode($values);
echo $valuesJson;
}
You could altough pass the BaseUrl to your Script (instead of using fullpath)
//layout.phtml
<script type="text/javascript">
var baseUrl = "<?= $this->baseUrl(); ?>";
</script>
So you could do:
source: baseUrl + "/index/autocomplete"