Trying to get tag-it to work with an ajax call.
Everything works so far. Except, I am unable to assign a tagSource via an ajax call.
In firebug, the 'data' is returning:
["Ruby","Ruby On Rails"]
But its not showing up as I type into the input box.
$('.tags ul').tagit({
itemName: 'question',
fieldName: 'tags',
removeConfirmation: true,
availableTags: ["c++", "java", "php", "javascript", "ruby", "python", "c"],
allowSpaces: true,
// tagSource: ['foo', 'bar']
tagSource: function() {
$.ajax({
url: "/autocomplete_tags.json",
dataType: "json",
data: { term: 'ruby' },
success: function(data) {
console.log(data);
return data;
}
});
}
});
console.log(data)
returns ["Ruby", "Ruby On Rails"]
.
Am I missing something here? Anyone else got this to work?
Seems this question hasn't been answered for a long time, I bet you have already found a solution but for those who haven't here is my answer:
The indention got all messed up when i copied from my code ;)
<input type="hidden" name="tags" id="mySingleField" value="Apple, Orange" disabled="true">
Tags:<br>
<ul id="mytags"></ul>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery("#mytags").tagit({
singleField: true,
singleFieldNode: $('#mySingleField'),
allowSpaces: true,
minLength: 2,
removeConfirmation: true,
tagSource: function( request, response ) {
//console.log("1");
$.ajax({
url: "search.php",
data: { term:request.term },
dataType: "json",
success: function( data ) {
response( $.map( data, function( item ) {
return {
label: item.label+" ("+ item.id +")",
value: item.value
}
}));
}
});
}});
});
and the "search.php" you can find this in some autocomplete jQuery examples actually.
<?php
$q = strtolower($_GET["term"]);
if (!$q) return;
$items = array(
"Great Bittern"=>"Botaurus stellaris",
"Little Grebe"=>"Tachybaptus ruficollis",
"Black-necked Grebe"=>"Podiceps nigricollis",
"Little Bittern"=>"Ixobrychus minutus",
"Black-crowned Night Heron"=>"Nycticorax nycticorax",
"Heuglin's Gull"=>"Larus heuglini"
);
function array_to_json( $array ){
if( !is_array( $array ) ){
return false;
}
$associative = count( array_diff( array_keys($array), array_keys( array_keys( $array )) ));
if( $associative ){
$construct = array();
foreach( $array as $key => $value ){
// We first copy each key/value pair into a staging array,
// formatting each key and value properly as we go.
// Format the key:
if( is_numeric($key) ){
$key = "key_$key";
}
$key = "\"".addslashes($key)."\"";
// Format the value:
if( is_array( $value )){
$value = array_to_json( $value );
} else if( !is_numeric( $value ) || is_string( $value ) ){
$value = "\"".addslashes($value)."\"";
}
// Add to staging array:
$construct[] = "$key: $value";
}
// Then we collapse the staging array into the JSON form:
$result = "{ " . implode( ", ", $construct ) . " }";
} else { // If the array is a vector (not associative):
$construct = array();
foreach( $array as $value ){
// Format the value:
if( is_array( $value )){
$value = array_to_json( $value );
} else if( !is_numeric( $value ) || is_string( $value ) ){
$value = "'".addslashes($value)."'";
}
// Add to staging array:
$construct[] = $value;
}
// Then we collapse the staging array into the JSON form:
$result = "[ " . implode( ", ", $construct ) . " ]";
}
return $result;
}
$result = array();
foreach ($items as $key=>$value) {
if (strpos(strtolower($key), $q) !== false) {
array_push($result, array("id"=>$value, "label"=>$key, "value" => strip_tags($key)));
}
if (count($result) > 11)
break;
}
echo array_to_json($result);
?>