I'm really sorry if this is too basic, but I really don't know how to do this.
I'm using this jquery Autocomplete plugin: http://devthought.com/wp-content/projects/jquery/textboxlist/Demo/
EDIT: This is the jquery code i use for the autocomplete:
$(function() {
var t = new $.TextboxList('#form_topick_tags', {unique: true, plugins: {autocomplete: {
minLength: 2,
queryRemote: true,
remote: {url: 'autocomplete2.php'}
}}});
The plugin uses a PHP for autocomplete, this is an example, it returns this output: "id, text, null (html I don't need), some html"
$response = array();
$names = array('Abraham Lincoln', 'Adolf Hitler', 'Agent Smith', 'Agnus', 'Etc');
// make sure they're sorted alphabetically, for binary search tests
sort($names);
$search = isset($_REQUEST['search']) ? $_REQUEST['search'] : '';
foreach ($names as $i => $name)
{
if (!preg_match("/^$search/i", $name)) continue;
$filename = str_replace(' ', '', strtolower($name));
$response[] = array($i, $name, null, '<img src="images/'. $filename . (file_exists('images/' . $filename . '.jpg') ? '.jpg' : '.png') .'" /> ' . $name);
}
header('Content-type: application/json');
echo json_encode($response);
I need a similar PHP to process this results: http://www.freebase.com/private/suggest?prefix=beatles&type_strict=any&category=object&all_types=false&start=0&limit=10&callback=
...being "beatles" the $search value, and getting this output:
guid,"name",null,"name<span>n:type name</span>"
So, the first result would be:
0,"The Beatles",null,"The Beatles<span>Band</span>"
Of course I would need to query freebase.com from that PHP. I mean:
+---------------+ +-----------+ +------------+
| | | | | |
| TextboxList +-------->| PHP +------->| Freebase |
| | | | | |
+---------------+ +-----------+ +------+-----+
|
JSON JSON |
TextboxList <--------+ freebase <----------+
Is this possible? Thanks!