Question: What is Autocomplete?
The Autocomplete widgets provides suggestions words or strings without the user needing to type them in full;
For Example:
When you start type "auto" in google search, Its provides you list of suggestions like below:
"auto liker", "autocard", "autocar", "autocar india", etc
Question: How to add "auto complete" in cakephp?
In ajax autocomplete to add more than one value
You can use "tokens" like below
new Ajax.Autocompleter('id','upd', 'url', { tokens: ',' });http://wiki.github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous/ajax-autocompleter
Autocomplete, when added to an input field, enables users to quickly find and select from a pre-populated list of values as they type, leveraging searching and filtering.
Question: How to add "auto complete" in jQuery?
jQuery(document).ready(function() { //Autocomplete config jQuery("#FriendMyLocation").autocomplete('/autocompletes/index/City/name', {minChars:3}); });
List of config available in Autocomplete.
$.Autocompleter.defaults = { inputClass: "ac_input", resultsClass: "ac_results", loadingClass: "ac_loading", minChars: 1, delay: 400, matchCase: false, matchSubset: true, matchContains: false, cacheLength: 10, max: 100, mustMatch: false, extraParams: {}, selectFirst: true, formatItem: function(row) { return row[0]; }, autoFill: false, width: 0, multiple: false, multipleSeparator: ", ", highlight: function(value, term) { return value.replace(new RegExp("(?![^&;]+;)(?!<[^<>]*)(" + term.replace(/([^$()[]{}*.+?|\])/gi, "\$1") + ")(?![^<>]*>)(?![^&;]+;)", "gi"), "<strong>$1</strong>"); }, scroll: true, scrollHeight: 180, attachTo: 'body' };Download the Plugins From https://plugins.jquery.com/ui.autocomplete/