how to use jquery autocomplete?
- by kyrogue
hi, i am creating a web project using JSP, and is trying to implement a simple search for users from my database using jquery autocomplete, however i am having trouble understanding how it works. i have little to no knowledge on jquery and ajax just to let you know. i have done the following code and am stuck.
<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8" import="ewa.dbConnect,ewa.sendEmail,ewa.pwGen,ewa.hashPw,java.sql.*" %>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/jquery.autocomplete.css" />
<script src="js/jquery.autocomplete.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>JSP Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<input type="text" id="search" name="search"/>
<script>
$("#search").autocomplete("getdata.jsp");
</script>
</body>
</html>
<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8" import="ewa.dbConnect,java.sql.*" %>
<%! dbConnect db = new dbConnect(); %>
<%
String query = request.getParameter("q");
db.connect();
Statement stmt = db.getConnection().createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT username FROM created_accounts WHERE username LIKE "+query);
while(rs.next())
{
out.println(rs.getString("username"));
}
db.disconnect
%>
if i am not wrong i read from a website, the parameter q is default and is just there, however how do i display the data? how do i pass the values from getdata.jsp into the autocomplete?
