CCK autocomplete widget
tdrycker - September 17, 2006 - 09:57
I have a big need for a CCK autocompletion widget... One that makes me create a text field that will be autocompleted when a users create a new node and fills in the field.
And i've seen that I am not the only one, but I can't find an appropriate solution.
Is there anyone who developed such a widget?
Or is there anyone who tried and gave up due to some problems?
I don't to seem this feature being requested in the cck request.
Can someone enlighten me in this matter? Work arrounds, tips, solutions?
thanks!
Tom

Some background information
My client (= my brother :)) has to be able to extend the fields in a node ... wihtout too much knowledge about drupal and theming.
When I try a workaround by using taxonomy to include autocomplete fields, I notice that the theming becomes more complex and are not a solution for the client:
When theming, you get a $taxonomy variable. this is an array with all the term objects. These terms first have to be checked to see to which category they belong.... This checking happens by comparing the vocabulary id ($vid). This means that the client doesn't has an easy job to add taxonomy terms and theme theme well.
Creating a autocomplete widget creates a new $field_field_name variabel. The names implies what's the content of the field ... no array have to be run through, no conditional checks, no checking of vocabulary id ... much easier to theme !!
So, this is my motivation for not using the taxonomy autocomplete function (altough, for now I am using that)
Tom
Hi Tom, Did you ever get an
Hi Tom,
Did you ever get an answer for this? I'd like an auto-complete for CCK text fields...
thanks,
CG
Textfield autocomplete
Found this module: http://drupal.org/project/textfield_autocomplete
I haven't tested it yet.