Getting values of a form in a autocomplete controller without submiting the form

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Hi

I'd like to get values of the fields filled in a form after an event in an autocomplete input

I know that there is a attribute called "extraParams" in the widget of autocomplete and I can get the values I pass in this attribute in the autoComplete controler using $_GET.

But how can I set values filled in other fields in the form by the user in the attribute  "extraParams" ?

Or is there anyway I can get the values of the other fields of the form in the autocomplete controller ?

My autocomplete field is working I just want to know how can I get the values of the other fields and pass theses to autocomplete controller.

Any ideas ?

thanks

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Somebody cracked this nut already?

If you would write the call to the JQuery autocomplete in Javascript than you can use the following code to pass additional field values:


$("#states").autocomplete(url, {

   extraParams: {

       country: function() { return $("#country").val(); }

   }

});

But how do you generate this kind of code using the CAutocomplete class? The documentation is refering to the above solution but what should be the exact syntax?

Anybody?

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SOLVED

The syntax is:

‘country’=>‘js:function() { return $("#country").val(); }’

where #country is a reference to a formfield with id = "country"