How to do use autocomplete fields with yii

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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I’m trying to add autocomplete fields to yii and I’m running into some issues. First I hear that CAutoComplete should is deprecated and that CJuiAutoComplete should be used instead. I can’t find any documentation on how to use either of these with an array. Does anyone know how I can use either of these in a form with local data?

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maybe you can take a look at this

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Here is the link for its class reference.

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Thank you for the reference, I actually had found this post but I tried using an echo to shoot out the widget and returned an error and I thought the code was wrong. My bad! I noticed in the class reference they don’t offer the combobox that is available on jquery ui.

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CJuiAutoComplete encapsulates the JUI autocomplete plugin. So everything available in the jQuery UI autocomplete is available in CJuiAutoComplete. The challenging part is, how :) I’m afraid I can’t help you how to do it because I didn’t use it, but I don’t want you to lose hope too soon. ;)