<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>AutoComplete</title>
<script>
$(function() {
$("#tags").autocomplete({
source: "Search.php",
minLength: 2, //search after two characters
select: function( event, ui ) {
console.log( ui.item ? "Selected: " + ui.item.value + " aka " + ui.item.id : "Nothing selected, input was " + this.value );
}
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<label for="tags">Tags:</label>
<input id="tags">
</body>
</html>
Search.php
$term = trim(strip_tags($_GET['term']));
$arr = array();
$sql = "SELECT id,tag FROM test WHERE tag LIKE '".$term."%'";
$data = $this->db->getAll($sql);
foreach($data as $k => $v) {
$arr[$k]['id'] = $v['id'];
$arr[$k]['value'] = $v['tag'];
}
echo json_encode($arr);