jQuery Autocomplete (Remote) - example

Question

I was really hoping to avoid posting a new question, but I cannot find a functioning example of the jQuery Autocomplete Remote feature that includes both the calling page an

Answer 1

Here is the correct code for search.php:

    $conn = mysql_connect("localhost", "USERNAME", "PASSWORD");
    mysql_select_db("DATABASE", $conn);
    $q = strtolower($_GET["term"]);

$return = array();
    $query = mysql_query("select FIELD from TABLE where FIELD like '%$q%'");
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
    array_push($return,array('label'=>$row['FIELD'],'value'=>$row['FIELD']));
}
echo(json_encode($return));

Some key points

• The word term is nowhere in the sample calling page given by jqueryui, but this is the Querystring name used
• You must create an array of the value, and then json encode before returning

I hope this helps some folks out in the future!