自动完成：根据选择填充多个字段

Question

I have a form, and there are 5 fields. The first field is an autocomplete field. I'd like to have the other 4 fields populated based on the autocomplete field selection. The docs in github ajax.autocompleter page reference setting an id and using a js function to call the id value, but this doesn't seem efficient if using multiple fields/need multiple values in addition to the ac value.

I'm using scriptaculous, and php. I have the autocompleter functioning, but am not sure on the rest of it. I'm also not clear on how to set the additional field parameters on the php end. I suppose that I could set the id="field1Val='blah'&field2Val='blah2'" then use js to parse and populate fields, but something about that just doesn't feel right.

Any idears?

Answer 1

this is what we use: a jquery plugin . The good thing about this one is that you can add a callback function that allow you to change the "current" behavior.

about the line 385 you have function that parses the result:

function parse(data) {
    var parsed = [];
    var rows = data.split("\n");
    for (var i=0; i < rows.length; i++) {
        var row = $.trim(rows[i]);
        if (row) {
            row = row.split("|");
            parsed[parsed.length] = {
                data: row,
                value: row[0],
                result: options.formatResult && options.formatResult(row, row[0]) || row[0]
            };
        }
    }
    return parsed;
};

you can create your own function that depending on what you get (you can send a json from the server) and then execute javascript and drive the form controls.

hope help you