Oh, the reason I used a function instead of:
extraParams: {catID:categoryID},
is because the function acts as a callback that will execute right
before the AJAX call to get the updated data for categoryID, otherwise
it will just be the same as the URL, set only on initialization (which
is blank).
It's not really a variable scope problem. You're misunderstanding when
variables are set.
This is what's happening:
set global variable categoryID
add change event
add autocomplete with URL set to aloha/item_search/"+categoryID
-> categoryID is blank
do rest of page
When you do your change e
I haven't tested this, nor tried it before, but based on the
documentation the data type of extraParams has to be an object, or a
function (that probably returns an object).
function getCategoryID() {
return {catID:categoryID};
// 'catID' will be the name of the categoryID in your script
Thank you James for the help! I didn't know that the address is
static once you've initialized it. I'm trying to work with the
extraParams option but it doesn't seem to do anything. Here is how I
have it set:
//Item Search for food name
$("#add-item #ITEMNAME").autocomplete("", {
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