I'd been using the autocomplete from scriptaculous, and I think I got spoiled in some areas. I'm hoping that maybe someone can help me with this.
1) My backend returns JSON in the form of an array of objects, which is really nice for everything else that uses it: http://ezdispatch.com/get_customers_by_name.php?cust=ad&u=demo&p=demo&text (it uses a JSON header if you remove the &text from the url). Is there any way to make the autocompleter use that (Obviously there is a bunch of additional information, but I will use the formatItem option to handle them). You can see what I need to recreate by going to the current site here: http://ezdispatch.com/order.php?u=demo&p=demo Just type into the first text input, use 'ac' to see that there are names on the left, ratings on the right, and even color coding. 2) It was also nice to be able to specify what parameter name was used. For example, since everything else I had was passing the customer name to that script using ?cust=someName, I could just specify "cust" and it would use it. This is minor compared to #1 though.
