Finding the id of a jquery autocomplete input from within the onItemSelect call

[codingForumsFTW]

im so lost don't understand this...

PHP Code:


foreach ($aResults as $key=>$value) {    
    echo "{$row['s_last']} |{$value['id']}\n"; 


gives me this

|20

PHP Code:


foreach ($aResults as $key=>$value) {    
    echo "$key{$row['s_last']} |{$value['id']}\n";        
} 


gives me this
0 |20


totally stupid question i know

[Fumigator]

Hey no worries, we all get lost occasionally. It's how you learn!

And it's partially my fault, because my previous message suggested you look at $row, but that's wrong in this situation.

Check out how a foreach() loop works. You loop through an array using substitute variables for the key and value of each element in the array. You are referring to the $row array, inside that foreach(), but you should be looking at the substitute variable $value, which is actually an array itself. That's why using $value['id'] is working. Bottom line, try $value['s_last'].

And for more enlightenment, because we're all here to learn:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/control...es.foreach.php

[codingForumsFTW]

Thank you! This works perfectly!

PHP Code:

foreach ($aResults as $key=>$value) {    
    echo "{$value['info']}, {$value['value']}|{$value['id']}\n"; 


[codingForumsFTW]

ok i have auto complete that i want to be able to select a column of the database before searching on it
i just want to pass the oneone variable over to the php page.

so i have this javascript

<script type="text/javascript">
$().ready(function() {

	function log(event, data, formatted) {
		$("<li>").html( !data ? "No match!" : "Selected: " + formatted).appendTo("#result");
	}
	
	$("#search").autocomplete("test.php", {
		width: 260,
		selectFirst: false
	});
	$("#search").result(function(event, data, formatted) {
		if (data)
			$(this).parent().next().find("input").val(data[1]);
	});
	
	
$(":text, textarea").result(log).next().click(function() {
		$(this).prev().search(); // shows resluts
	});

});


</script>

the html

	<p class="field" > <select id="oneone" name="oneone" style="width:100px;margin:5px 0 5px 0;" value="">
		<option value="s_last">Last Name</option>
<option value="s_first">First Name</option>

<label>Search</label>
			<input type="text" id="search" />
		</p>
		<p>
			<label>Hidden input</label>
			<input  type="text" id="inputit" />