Me and some mates have been trying to make a live search script on our search bar. Now this isn't going that well so now we are asking for ur help!
our external file to get the results is this :
$con = mysqli_connect('localhost', '*', '*', '*');
$key=$_POST['search'];
$query = ("select name, url from search where name LIKE '%{$key}%'");
$sql = $con->query($query);
while($row = $sql->fetch_array()){
echo json_encode($row);
}
and our script code looks like this :
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$( "#formGroupInputLarge" ).keyup(function() {
console.log( "Handler for .keyup() called." )
var string = $('#formGroupInputLarge').val();
$.ajax(
{
type: 'POST',
url: 'search.php',
data: {'search': string},
success: function(data){
var text= JSON.parse(data);
$("#suggesstion-box").show();
$("#suggesstion-box").html("<a href='#'>"+ text +"</a>");
$("#search-box").css("background","#FFF");
}
}
);
});
});
</script>
we've tried with multiple things like the next ones :
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#formGroupInputLarge").keyup(function () {
console.log("Handler for .keyup() called.");
var string = $('#formGroupInputLarge').val();
$.ajax(
{
type: 'POST',
url: 'search.php',
data: {'search': string},
success: function (data) {
var obj = eval('('+ data +')' );
console.log(obj['name']);
//var text = JSON.parse(data);
//$("#suggesstion-box").show();
//$("#suggesstion-box").html(text);
//$("#search-box").css("background", "#FFF");
}
}
);
});
});
</script>
but none of it seems to work. Please help us!