Autocompleter - search words that begin only with the letters entered

Hi,
using autocompleter, i would search words that begin only with the letters entered and not all words that contains these letters. If is not possible, could i order the words having first ones starting with those letters and then words that contain those letters.

Regards
Daniele

Hi Daniele,

Yes you can do either of these - you need to edit the code in the AJAX event in your form so that the data is filtered/sorted before it is returned to the browser page.

Bob

PS I recall an earlier thread here where there was a hack needed to get data to sort in a particular way - but right now I can't find it and it may not apply to CFv5.

Hi Bob,
thanks for your reply.

My code is:

<?php
$countries = array();
if ( !$form->data['Data'] || count($form->data['Data']) < 1 ) {
  // no result was found
  $countries[] = 'Nessun comune in lista';
} else {
  foreach ( $form->data['Data'] as $d ) {
    $countries[$d['nomeComune']] =  $d['nomeComune'];
    $countries[$d['idProvincia']] =  $d['idProvincia'];
  }
}
foreach($form->data['Data'] as $country){
 if(!empty($form->data['tag']) AND stripos( $country['nomeComune'], $form->data['tag']) === false ){
  continue;
 }
$json[] = array('id' => $country['idProvincia'], 'text' => $country['nomeComune']);
}
echo json_encode($json);
?>

I should modify the red code in IF statement? (stripos($country['nomeComune'], $form->data['tag']) === false)

Regards
Daniele

Hi Daniele,

Yes you'd change that code. At present the 'matching' code is

stripos( $country['nomeComune'], $form->data['tag']) === false )

If you check the PHP docs here you'll see that strpos() returns the start position, where 0 is the beginning of the string - so

. . . stripos( $country['nomeComune'], $form->data['tag']) === false OR stripos( $country['nomeComune'], $form->data['tag']) > 0 

should only check for countries where the tag is found at the start of the country name.

Bob

Hi Bob,
thanks a lot. Now it works correctly!!!

have a nice day

Regards
Daniele