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By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:49:41 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. Can you explain how i can get the values to be displayed in the autocomplete field from a database with a simple example? I’m new to zend and i’d appreciate any help. Thanks!

By: cheeze

cheeze — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:53:10 +0000

@zygis

The $ is a defined variable in jQuery. The error occurs because you have not included jQuery.

There are a few ways you can enable jQuery, but I guess the easiest way for you to understand is to use the same method to include the jQuery library like so:

$view->jQuery()->addJavascriptFile(“https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js”);

By: zygis

zygis — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:21:18 +0000

HI, I’m trying to make autocomple in zend framework, but I can’t get in work, I do everythink like writen in your tutourial, and i get error Error: $ is not defined
Source File: xxxx Line: 40
LIne 40 in my source is:
$(document).ready(
function()
{
$(‘#username’).autocompleteArray(['Jack', 'John', 'Jason', 'Jeremy', 'jimmy', 'jean']);
}
);

By: cheeze

cheeze — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:56:56 +0000

@01Kuzma I’m glad you it helped you.

If I were to improve on the tutorial, I’ll probably do a bit more than making it work with the DB. It’ll probably involve making the auto-complete function such that the auto-complete will exclude currently logged-in user.

Having said that, I won’t be doing it soon though – quite tied up with work. If and when more people ask for it, I’ll probably work on it sooner rather than later.

Cheers!

By: 01Kuzma

01Kuzma — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:47:16 +0000

Hi!
Great tutorial!
Everything works fine!
Just wonder, will you improve your tutorial it in order to interact with DB ?

By: cheeze

cheeze — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:35:44 +0000

@Markus Glad you found it useful. Cheers!

By: Markus

Markus — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:39:26 +0000

Great tutorial
Helped me out a lot, thank you

By: cheeze

cheeze — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:58:31 +0000

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the input. You are right – it wasn’t written for the beginner to Zend cos I figured the beginner wouldn’t be looking to do auto-complete right at the get-go. So I had assumed some basic knowledge of the reader to begin with. That’s why I had left the invitation to post questions at the end of the article.

You’re also right in that the article isn’t explicit enough in the sense of a step-by-step tutorial. But the keen eye will notice that I did indicate the name of the file above the “foreach” loop.

Under the section “Explanation”, below the “View” subsection, I also stated that the extension has to be “ajax.phtml”. With my assumption of basic knowledge by the reader, I guess it should make sense.

I had thought of providing the source code, but because each file is so short, I concluded that it would be quite redundant. Furthermore, the files have to be in the right location for it to make sense.

Thanks for pointing out the mistake. I have already corrected it.

Thanks again and cheers

By: Robert (nimx)

Robert (nimx) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:55:29 +0000

Hi,

Thank you for this tutorial – it’s a good work but there are some things that should be mentioned in my opinion…
For those who starts their journey with Zend, the tutorial won’t be clear enough.
For example: I weren’t sure if I should create another file index but with suffix ajax.html.
Besides I found small mistake: in foreach you should use $this->words instead od $words.
I know that you didn’t intend to prepare tutorial for real greenhorns but it would be nice if source code would be available

Best regards,
Robert