I see there are a lot of questions about implementing AJAX autocomplete, but I'll be dammed if every single thing on the subject is woefully confusing or from the mid 2000s.
I go to the 1.3 cookbook under Ajax and right at the top is says AjaxHelper is depreciated, then it goes on to talk about those same things. How can the latest version of cakePHP already be depreciated? I've tried about 8 different implementations of ajax autocomplete that I've found on the web and could not get any of them to work...mostly because they assumed I'm smarter than I am (not step by step instructions, but code snippets or pseudo code), or they were written for an out of date version of cake. Prototype? Scriptalicious? JQuery? WTF are we supposed to use? Actually I did get this one to sorta work, sorta: http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2006/06/06/autocompletion-the-easy-way/ The field I want to autocomplete is a vendor name. But in the the suppliers model, the vendor name is an ID to the vendors table. The autocomplete was returning the ID, not the name. Sure it seemed easy to implement, but it also seemed to be limited. I couldn't figure out how to get the vendor name instead of the ID. So I beg of the community, can someone put up an up-to-date, step-by- step tutorial on how to properly implement AJAX autocomplete?? Pulleeez? TIA -Mike -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
