By pwolanin on

In the core code, the user.module's autocomplete callback will only try to complete a single username. However, it seems as though this should be able to work for multiple names, like the free tagging in taxonomy module. Culling code form user and taxonomy modules, I think the code below could provide this functionality (I haven't tried it yet, however). Has anyone else wanted the same thing and gotten it working?

function multiuser_autocomplete($string = '') {
  // The user enters a comma-separated list of usernames. We only autocomplete the last one.
  $array = explode(',',$string);
  // Fetch last tag
  $last_string = trim(array_pop($array));
  if ($last_string != '') {
    user_autocomplete($last_string)
  }
}

function mymodule_menu($may_cache) {
  
  if ($may_cache) {
    $items[] = array(
      'path' => 'user/multi-autocomplete', 
      'title' => t('user autocomplete'),
      'callback' => 'multiuser_autocomplete', 
      'access' => user_access('access user profiles'), 
      'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
    );
  }
  
  return $items;
}
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boris mann’s picture

boris mann commented

Yes, this would be super useful. It should actually be a core function, I think. For now, we're going to try and get this working with the organic groups add subscribers field. And by we, I mean point Moshe at this and see if he wants to give it a try :P

pwolanin’s picture

pwolanin commented

the above doesn't work (only matches one name at the beginning of the line). The following is starting to work, after further study of the taxnomy module


function multiuser_autocomplete($string) {
  // The user enters a comma-separated list of usernames. We only autocomplete the last one.
  $array = explode(',',$string);
  // Fetch last username
  $last = trim(array_pop($array));
  if ($last != '') {
    $prefix = count($array) ? implode(',', $array) .', ' : '';
    $matches = array();
    $result = db_query_range("SELECT name FROM {users} WHERE LOWER(name) LIKE LOWER('%s%%')", $last, 0, 10);

    while ($user = db_fetch_object($result)) {
      $matches[$prefix. $user->name] = check_plain($user->name);
    }
    print drupal_to_js($matches);
    exit();
  }
}

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mlncn commented

an inquiry from a very interested party...

~ben

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pwolanin commented

Just saw your post about the multi-user autocomplete

It seems to be working in my volunteer_timeslots module: http://drupal.org/node/106536

Anyhow, I saw the link to your site, and I'm curious about this graphic:

http://agaricdesign.com/grade-in

As best as I can tell, it's not from the Univ. of Michigan GEO (where I was on the bargaining team and a department steward), but the graphic (and event) looks very much derived from the UofM GEO logo drawn by one of members at the time: http://www.umgeo.org/

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