jquery ui autocomplete无缘无故地停止工作

Question

In a website cms I am using jquery autocomplete. I worked like a charm. But suddenly, after a few weeks, it stopped working. Absolutely no code was changed in this period. I'm using jquery 1.6.2 and jquery ui 1.8.13. Here's the code:

$(function() {
    var artists = [<?php getArtists(); ?>];
    $("#artistsearch").autocomplete({
        source: artists,
        select: function(event, ui){
            $("#artistsearch").val(ui.item.artistsearch);
        },
        change: function(event, ui) { $("#search").submit(); }
    });
});

The array artists is a correct array, but too long to post here. I hope that there is anyone over here that can help me out on this one.

Thanks in advance, Richard

I've got a form with a field artistsearch

Edit: Thanks people..

I didn't receive notification mails, so a little late with my response.

The echo is IN the getArtist() function and delivers a nice array. As I stated in my original question the whole thing DID work, but suddenly stopped working, without changing any code. At first I thought that it could be an invalid item in the array, so I hardcoded a simple, 2 items array, and it also didn't work.

Could it be a server issue? I realy am confused with this and I didn't see this behavior in my careere before.

Answer 1

Problem solved!

It turned out that some of the array-items where breaking the array. In the getArtist function I switched the quotes, e.g.: "'" to '"'

Richard