[Facebooker-talk] autocompletion inside facebook?

[Malisart Aurélien]

Thanks Zhao,

I should have said I was trying to do an AJAX autocompletion.

Your solution should work but what if I have 1000 items to search or  
more?
I cannot include all searchable items into the FBML, isn't it?

Aurélien

On 21 Jan 2009, at 18:04, Zhao Lu wrote:

> Aurelien,
>
> I have implemented typeahead in my facebook app without much  
> difficulty:
>
>               <fb:fbml version="1.1">
>                 <fb:typeahead-input name="contact_search"  
> autocomplete="off" onselect="updateAccountOptions()">
>                   <% current_user.contacts.each do |contact| %>
>                     <% id = contact.id %>
>                     <% fullname = contact.name %>
>                     <fb:typeahead-option value="<%= id %>"><%=  
> fullname %></fb:typeahead-option>
>                   <% end %>
>                 </fb:typeahead-input>
>               </fb:fbml>
>
> The typeahead is used to suggest the contacts of the current user.
>
> Zhao
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Malisart Aurélien <aurelien.malisart.mailinglists at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> Hi, I just finished the book from Mike Mangino.
> It looks like the ability to use "high level javascript" inside the  
> canvas is quite hard. FBJS is painful for developers I think.
>
> I'm trying to have a simple autocompletion for a text field in my  
> app. Was someone able to use this:
> http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/FBJS/Examples/Typeahead/AJAX 
>  ?
> The ajax call is well done on my server but nothing happens client  
> side (no error neither).
>
> Does someone have another solution to implement basic  
> autocompletions inside Facebook? I don't especially want to use  
> Facebook's one. Most packages of course use Prototype or jQuery.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Aurélien
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>
> -- 
> Zhao

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