I understand that its been answered already. but I hope this will help someone in future and saves so much time and pain.
complete code is below: This one I did for a textbox to make it Autocomplete in CiviCRM. Hope it helps someone
CRM.$( 'input[id^=custom_78]' ).autocomplete({
autoFill: true,
select: function (event, ui) {
var label = ui.item.label;
var value = ui.item.value;
// Update subject field to add book year and book product
var book_year_value = CRM.$('select[id^=custom_77] option:selected').text().replace('Book Year ','');
//book_year_value.replace('Book Year ','');
var subject_value = book_year_value + '/' + ui.item.label;
CRM.$('#subject').val(subject_value);
CRM.$( 'input[name=product_select_id]' ).val(ui.item.value);
CRM.$('input[id^=custom_78]').val(ui.item.label);
return false;
},
source: function(request, response) {
CRM.$.ajax({
url: productUrl,
data: {
'subCategory' : cj('select[id^=custom_77]').val(),
's': request.term,
},
beforeSend: function( xhr ) {
xhr.overrideMimeType( "text/plain; charset=x-user-defined" );
},
success: function(result){
result = jQuery.parseJSON( result);
//console.log(result);
response(CRM.$.map(result, function (val,key) {
//console.log(key);
//console.log(val);
return {
label: val,
value: key
};
}));
}
})
.done(function( data ) {
if ( console && console.log ) {
// console.log( "Sample of dataas:", data.slice( 0, 100 ) );
}
});
}
});
PHP code on how I'm returning data to this jquery ajax call in autocomplete:
/**
* This class contains all product related functions that are called using AJAX (jQuery)
*/
class CRM_Civicrmactivitiesproductlink_Page_AJAX {
static function getProductList() {
$name = CRM_Utils_Array::value( 's', $_GET );
$name = CRM_Utils_Type::escape( $name, 'String' );
$limit = '10';
$strSearch = "description LIKE '%$name%'";
$subCategory = CRM_Utils_Array::value( 'subCategory', $_GET );
$subCategory = CRM_Utils_Type::escape( $subCategory, 'String' );
if (!empty($subCategory))
{
$strSearch .= " AND sub_category = ".$subCategory;
}
$query = "SELECT id , description as data FROM abc_books WHERE $strSearch";
$resultArray = array();
$dao = CRM_Core_DAO::executeQuery( $query );
while ( $dao->fetch( ) ) {
$resultArray[$dao->id] = $dao->data;//creating the array to send id as key and data as value
}
echo json_encode($resultArray);
CRM_Utils_System::civiExit();
}
}