Comments on: Extended Autocomplete Helper

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:31:35 +0000

Hi, I have problems with your helper. The ID doesn’t work… Could you tell me how to write the the function and view of ajax_autocomplete? I think that there is the problem
( I’ve already read the part II )
Thanks

By: Kleding Producent

Kleding Producent — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:05:26 +0000

Big thanks Nik!

By: Jerome

Jerome — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:09:42 +0000

… Does not seem to work with labels containing extended characters (àéèü .etc…).
When I access the controller that generates the list it shows good in the browser, including extended characters, but when this same list displays in the autocompleter, extended characters are replaced by wierd characters … I am stuk for 2 days on this, a little help would be greate

By: David

David — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:04:26 +0000

Hi Nik, I would just like to say a big thank you for extending the functionality of the Autocomplete helper with your StrictAutocomplete helper.

By: Nik Chankov

Nik Chankov — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:10:01 +0000

Hi Joshua,

I’ve tried your suggestion on the example page in my blog, but both on IE6 and 7 there is no such problem. It’s working as expected.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:26:25 +0000

Nik, sorry to bug you with another question, but maybe you have a bright idea on this one: My autocompleter (your helper displayed above) works perfectly fine in Firefox/Chrome. But IE (6-8) is troubling me: The autocomplete list does not appear immediately after entering text. Instead, it only appears if I enter some text, wait a second and afterwards modify it in any way, e.g. remove a letter.

Just for demostration purposes:
- I enter “testquery” (fairly quickly)
- No reaction
- I delete the “y”
- Autocomplete list appears (with the correct entries etc.)

Do you have any idea what might be causing this strange behavior?

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:20:31 +0000

Nik, thank you very much for your immediate response. With your help, I was able to figure out how to use the helper. Anyways, I will have a look at the jQuery-Version as well – although I hesitate to add another JS library to my project…

By: Nik Chankov

Nik Chankov — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:46:32 +0000

Joshua, I’ve restored the demo, it was because of hosting change and the db config wasn’t changed. Now it’s ok, but I would recommend to start using jQuery instead my helper.

Probably in the future I will create a demo how to use jQuery, but it’s still in “my head” stage. I would recommend this jQuery plugin http://www.pengoworks.com/workshop/jquery/autocomplete.htm

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:15:48 +0000

Hi Nik, thanks a lot for your efforts.
Unfortunately, your online demo site seems to have crashed – would it be possible for you to get it back working? I would love to include your helper into my project, but unfortunately I am somewhat stuck right now.
Thank you
Joshua

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:30:39 +0000

Thanks for the tips, it works like a charm now!