How to pass another field value to CjuiAutocomplete ?

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[font="Arial"]Hello,

I’m trying to use CjuiAutocomplete widgets in replacement for dependant dropdownlists. (to select a brand, a model, and a version for a classifieds application)

here is my question :

my first autocomplete works well, it allows the user to select a brand.

My second one needs to display only models from the selected brand.

I figure I need to pass the brand_id to the autocomplete action through GET.

This can be done by passing an array to the widget :




$form->widget('zii.widgets.jui.CJuiAutoComplete', array(

        'model'=>$model,

        'attribute'=>'model_id',

        'source'=>$this->createUrl('Ad/autocompleteModel', array('brand_id'=>"function() { $('#Ad_brand_id').val();}")),

        // additional javascript options for the autocomplete plugin

        'options'=>array(

                        'showAnim'=>'fold',

        ),

My problem is “function() { $(’#Ad_brand_id’).val();}” isn’t interpreted as Javascript, but just as a string…

Any idea how I can get the field value of brand_id in there?

Thanks a lot!

Cheers

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Use this instead http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CJuiAutoComplete#source-detail

on ‘source’=>‘js:functionametocallthatwillhandlethecallwithbothvalues’

Will work

3

Thanks for your quick answer :)

I’m sorry, I’m not quite sure how to get a javascript function to do what I need.

The brands, models, and versions lists are stored in the database.

How can I access it through the JS function?

[edit] : I’ve figured it out :) To anyone interested :




....

'source'=>'js: function(request, response) {

    $.ajax({

        url: "'.$this->createUrl('Ad/autocompleteModel').'",

        dataType: "json",

        data: {

            term: request.term,

            brand: $("#Ad_brand_id").val()

        },

        success: function (data) {

                response(data);

        }

    })

 }',

....
4

Thanks for sharing

5

Thank you so much !!!

6

Just wanted to say thanks for the solution Benn - much appreciated!