I am trying to use jquery auto complete in word-press search.
However, though I get a result via ajax, I couldn’t jquery-UI auto complete work.
here is my jquery code.
$("#searchbox").keyup(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
var search_val=$("#searchbox").val();
$.ajax({
type:"POST",
url: "./wp-admin/admin-ajax.php",
data: {
action:'wpay_search',
user_name:search_val
},
success:function(data){
//$('#search_result').html(data);
$( "#searchbox" ).autocomplete({
source: data
});
}
});
});
here is my php code
function wpay_search() {
global $wpdb;
$name=$_POST['user_name'];
echo $name;
$employee=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT `First_Name`, last_name FROM users WHERE First_name LIKE '$name%' ");
foreach($employee as $key=> $value){
echo $value->First_Name;
}
//wp_reset_query();
die();
} // end theme_custom_handler
add_action( 'wp_ajax_wpay_search', 'wpay_search' );
add_action( 'wp_ajax_nopriv_wpay_search', 'wpay_search' );
How to implement auto completer in wordpress? Where I have missed?
When I encode the data to
json
, all problems are gone!