Hello,

I'm currently building an autocomplete text field with a twist - it will be querying an OpenX database in order to retrieve a list of previous advertisers or agencies

i have a "netron.module" and here's the relevant code

//  hook_menu implementation

function menu_menu()
{
$items["netron/autocomplete"] = array(
'title' => 'Autocomplete for agencies',
'page_callback' => 'netron_agency_autocomplete',
'access_callback' =>TRUE,
'access arguments' => array('access content'),
'type' => MENU_CALLBACK
   );
}

//  implement hook_form_alter.  turns a text field into an autocomplete text field
function netron_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) 
{
 if ($form_id == "netron_node_form")
{
	$form['field_agency']=array(
	'#type'=>'textfield',
	'#title'=>t('Agency'),
	'#size'=>30,
	'#maxlength'=>64,
	'#autocomplete_path' =>'netron/autocomplete'
	);
}


// retrieves an array of agency names from an openx database
function netron_agency_autocomplete()
{
/* openx db connection stuff here... your mileage may vary  */

$matches = array();

$result = mysql_query("SELECT name FROM ox_agency where LOWER(name) LIKE LOWER('%s%%')");
	while ($row=mysql_fetch_object($result) )
	{
	$matches[$row->name] = check_plain($row->name);
	}
  print drupal_to_js($matches);
 
}

the problem is that the agency field on netron_node_form does turn into an autocomplete - but throws an error ,as it can't find the path
netron/autocomplete

so its not even getting to doing a function callback. is there something that i'm missing from the above code?

Comments

netron’s picture

function menu_menu() is a typo

it's actually

function netron_menu()

netron’s picture

new version of hook_menu : note that there are now no underscores in "page callback" or "access callback"
added return $items;

function netron_menu()
{
$items["netron/autocomplete"] = array(
'title' => 'Autocomplete for agencies',
'page callback' => 'netron_agency_autocomplete',
'access callback' =>TRUE,
'access arguments' => array('access content'),
'type' => MENU_CALLBACK
);
return $items;
}

netron’s picture

got this working.

had to visit
admin/build/modules

then back to my module form - and it worked.

however the autocomplete is returning all agency names, so the SQL query needs something passed into it...

netron’s picture

altered autocomplete dbase function:

function netron_agency_autocomplete($field_agency='')
{
mysql_pconnect("host","user","pwd");
mysql_query("USE openxbeta");
$matches = array();
if($field_agency) {
$result = mysql_query("SELECT name FROM ox_agency where LOWER(name) LIKE LOWER('%$field_agency%')");
while ($row=mysql_fetch_object($result) )
{
$matches[$row->name] = check_plain($row->name);

}
}
drupal_json($matches);
exit;
}

autocomplete on a text field now works flawlessly.

greg911’s picture

I finally figure out what went wrong (thanks to your code netron !)

My autocomplete function receive 2 parameters, the first one is "autocomplete" (and stays so, whatever I do!) and the second one is the "textfield" value on which I bound the autocomplete (the $field_agency in netron's case).

I don't really know why it behave like that... maybe because the path is mySearch/autocomplete so the "autocomplete" part is handled by Drupal as a the first "page parameter"... anyways, if it can help someone figure out why it is always searching for the "autocomplete" keyword, this may be your answer :-)

chadhester’s picture

Yea, admin/build/modules worked for me too. Thanks for that tip... I was going out of my mind working on a solution.

__________
Regards,
Chad Hester

j0rd’s picture

      $form['field_name'][0]['#autocomplete_path'] = 'oldversion/ac_name'; 

I had to add the 0 index for my Drupal 6.6 with CCK 2.0 install. Maybe you guys are using CCK 1.x?

oligoelemento’s picture

j0rd, could you paste the final code for autocomplete fields that works in Drupal 6 and CCK2?

Thanks

mehuls’s picture

Hi,

I use this in my one project and I am very thankful to all of you for such a nice help....!

ashiali’s picture

below is my form and the autocomplete function, it is just not working in drupal6...plz teme the error....
function recipe_search_menu() {

$items = array();
$items["recipe_search/autocomplete"] = array(
'title' => 'recipe search category autocomplete',
'page_callback' => 'recipe_search_autocomplete',
'access_callback' =>TRUE,
'access arguments' => array('access content'),
'type' => MENU_CALLBACK
);

return $items;
}
//////////////////////////////
function recipe_search_form(){

$form = array();

$form['recipe_search']['title'] = array(
'#title' => t('recipe title'),
'#type' => 'textfield',

);
$form['recipe_search']['category'] = array(
'#title' => t('Category'),
'#type' => 'textfield',
'#autocomplete_path' => 'recipe_search/autocomplete',

);
$form['recipe_search']['submit'] = array(
'#type' => 'submit',
'#value' => t('Submit'),

);

return $form;
}
//////////////////////
function recipe_search_autocomplete() {
$matches = array();
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM {term_data} WHERE vid=2");
while ( $row=mysql_fetch_object($result) )
{
$matches[$row->name] = check_plain($row->name);
}
print drupal_to_js($matches);
exit();

}

hkvd’s picture

Since ashiali posted her query about a year ago, she must most definitely have figured out a solution. I'm still posting here since it might help others who stumble upon this post -

The following lines

'page_callback' => 'recipe_search_autocomplete',
'access_callback' =>TRUE,

should be as follows (notice the removal of underscores in page_callback and access_callback) -

'page callback' => 'recipe_search_autocomplete',
'access callback' =>TRUE,

A similar post/query - http://drupal.org/node/740974

mehuls’s picture

Following errors i can see

1> Menu name function is not correct it should be netron_menu()
2> In autocomplete function at last use only drupal_jason($matches) nor print drupal_jason($matches)
3> String is not passed to autocomplete function how u will search?

:)