jquery ui token

Question

hello i have followed this tutorial wich uses jquery UI to generate tokens facebook like: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/how-to-use-the-jquery-ui-autocomplete-widget/

my problem is i need to pass two values thru Json: the ID and the NAME: the server side script looks like this:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1', true);
include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/inrees/inrees/communaute/includes/_db.php');

$param = $_GET["term"];
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM comm_carnet, in_emails 
                       WHERE carnet_iduser=emails_id 
                         AND emails_id!='".$_COOKIE['INREES_ID']."'  
                         AND emails_nom REGEXP '^$param'");

//build array of results
for ($x = 0, $numrows = mysql_num_rows($query); $x < $numrows; $x++) {
    $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query);
    $friends[$x] = array("name" = > $row["emails_nom"], "id" = > $row["emails_id"]);
}

//echo JSON to page
$response = $_GET["callback"]."(".json_encode($friends).")";

echo $response;

the echo from the server side script is:

([{"name":"dupont","id":"34998"},{"name":"castro","id":"34996"},{"name":"castelbajac","id":"34995"}])

(wich is exactly what i need)

right now i am passing the the "name" array but not the "id" wich needs to be a hidden input with the corresponding id from the database, the html page where the call to the php is done looks like this:

//attach autocomplete
$("#to").autocomplete({

    //define callback to format results
    source: function (req, add) {

        //pass request to server
        $.getJSON("messages_ajax.php?callback=?", req, function (data) {

            //create array for response objects
            var suggestions = [];

            //process response
            $.each(data, function (i, val) {
                suggestions.push(val.name);
            });

            //pass array to callback
            add(suggestions);
        });
    },

    //define select handler
    select: function (e, ui) {

        //create formatted friend
        var friend = ui.item.value,
            span = $("<span>").text(friend),
            a = $("<a>").addClass("remove").attr({
                href: "javascript:",
                title: "Remove " + friend
            }).text("x").appendTo(span);
        $("<input />", {
            value: "id",
            type: "hidden",
            name: "id"
        }).appendTo(span);
        //add friend to friend div
        span.insertBefore("#to");
    },

    //define select handler
    change: function () {
        //prevent 'to' field being updated and correct position
        $("#to").val("").css("top", 2);
    }
});

//add click handler to friends div
$("#friends").click(function () {
    //focus 'to' field
    $("#to").focus();
});

//add live handler for clicks on remove links
$(".remove", document.getElementById("friends")).live("click", function () {

    //remove current friend
    $(this).parent().remove();

    //correct 'to' field position
    if ($("#friends span").length === 0) {
        $("#to").css("top", 0);
    }
});

so is basically where you see the comment: "//define select handler" that something needs to be done but i cant do it! i added the line :

$("<input />", {value:"id", type:"hidden", name:"id"}).appendTo(span); but it does not fetch my array "id", any help is apreciated.

regards

Answer 1

So, it looks like you're adding only the names to the suggestions list, not the entire data object which would contain the name and id members. Instead of doing this:

suggestions.push(val.name)

try pushing the entire data object onto the list you're passing to your callback:

suggestions.push(val)

Then, in your callback, ui.item.value will contain the full data member, so you'll need to change your code around a bit. To access the name and id values separately, you could presumably do something like this:

var friendName = ui.item.value.name;
var friendID = ui.item.value.id;

Then, you can use those variables where you need to (friend becomes friendID, and instead of passing {value:"id" ...} to the hidden input, you could do {value:friendID ...}