How to Create a jQuery UI Autocomplete with PHP and Ajax?

11-Apr-2023

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How to Create a jQuery UI  Autocomplete with PHP and Ajax?

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In this post, we will learn how to create a jQuery UI autocomplete with PHP and Ajax. I explained simply jQuery UI autocomplete Ajax with PHP example. Here you will learn jQuery UI autocomplete Ajax and PHP example. This tutorial will give you a simple example of how to jQuery PHP UI autocomplete dropdown.

I will give you a simple example of how to jQuery autocomplete Ajax PHP MySQL database.

So let's see bellow example:

config.php


<?php

$host = "localhost";

$user = "root";

$password = "";

$dbname = "my_db";

$con = mysqli_connect($host, $user, $password,$dbname);

if (!$con) {

die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());

}

?>

index.php

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<meta charset="utf-8">

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

<title>How to Create a jQuery UI Autocomplete with PHP and Ajax? - Nicesnippets.com</title>

<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.0.2/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-EVSTQN3/azprG1Anm3QDgpJLIm9Nao0Yz1ztcQTwFspd3yD65VohhpuuCOmLASjC" crossorigin="anonymous">

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">

</head>

<body>

<div class="container mt-5">

<div class="row">

<div class="col-md-11">

<div class="card m-auto" style="width: 78%;">

<div class="card-header text-center text-white bg-primary">

<h4>How to Create a jQuery UI Autocomplete with PHP and Ajax? - Nicesnippets.com</h4>

</div>

<div class="card-body">

<form>

<div class="mb-3">

<label class="mb-1"><strong>Single selection :</strong></label>

<input type='text' id='autocomplete' class="form-control">

</div>

<div class="mb-3">

<label class="mb-1"><strong>Selected User id :</strong></label>

<input type='text' id='selectuser_id' class="form-control">

</div>

<div class="mb-3">

<label class="mb-1"><strong>Multiple Selection :</strong></label>

<input type='text' id='multi_autocomplete' class="form-control">

</div>

<div class="mb-3">

<label class="mb-1"><strong>Selected User ids :</strong></label>

<input type='text' id='selectuser_ids' class="form-control">

</div>

</form>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

<!-- Script -->

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>

<script type='text/javascript' >

$(function() {

$("#autocomplete").autocomplete({

source: function(request, response) {

$.ajax({

url: "fetchData.php",

type: 'post',

dataType: "json",

data: {

search: request.term

},

success: function(data) {

response(data);

}

});

},

select: function (event, ui) {

$('#autocomplete').val(ui.item.label); // display the selected text

$('#selectuser_id').val(ui.item.value); // save selected id to input

return false;

},

focus: function(event, ui){

$("#autocomplete").val(ui.item.label);

$("#selectuser_id").val(ui.item.value);

return false;

},

});

// Multiple select

$("#multi_autocomplete").autocomplete({

source: function(request, response) {

var searchText = extractLast(request.term);

$.ajax({

url: "fetchData.php",

type: 'post',

dataType: "json",

data: {

search: searchText

},

success: function(data) {

response(data);

}

});

},

select: function(event, ui) {

var terms = split($('#multi_autocomplete').val());

terms.pop();

terms.push(ui.item.label);

terms.push("");

$('#multi_autocomplete').val(terms.join(", " ));

// Id

var terms = split($('#selectuser_ids').val());

terms.pop();

terms.push(ui.item.value);

terms.push("");

$('#selectuser_ids').val(terms.join(", "));

return false;

}

});

});

function split(val) {

return val.split(/,\s*/);

}

function extractLast(term) {

return split(term).pop();

}

</script>

</body>

</html>

fetchData.php

<?php

include "config.php";

if(isset($_POST['search'])){

$search = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['search']);

$query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE name like'%".$search."%'";

$result = mysqli_query($con,$query);

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result) ){

$response[] = array("value"=>$row['id'],"label"=>$row['name']);

}

echo json_encode($response);

}

exit;

?>

Output:

I hope it will help you.....

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