To be more clare, I need to search by name a database of customers but when I found the person by his name I need to load his identification in a hidden input.

Thanks for all

So I am working on something similar.
A piece of advice, for the PHP to this:

instead of writing all those str_replace, either do a for() loop for all latin Char(), or just make an array.

ie.

Look forward to your reply

function getSelectedId(text, li) {
$(‘customers_fax’).value=li.id;
}

before my form, because if I put it after I take error because element getSelectedId is not yet set for the function Ajax.Autocompleter to call it.

But even I tried all the ways that I can think, I did not managed to get this work, to pass the id in a hidden input field.

My page code is :

function getSelectedId(text, li) {
$(‘customers_fax’).value=li.id;
}

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new Ajax.Autocompleter(“search”,”hint”,”server.php”,{afterUpdateElement : getSelectedId});

And my server.php is :

$test_echo = $_POST['search'];

$test_echo = str_replace(“A”, “Á”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“B”, “”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“G”, “Ô, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“D”, “Ä”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“E”, “Å”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“Z”, “Æ”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“H”, “Ç”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“U”, “È”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“I”, “É”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“K”, “Ê”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“L”, “Ë”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“M”, “Ì”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“N”, “Í”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“J”, “Δ, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“O”, “Ï”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“P”, “Д, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“R”, “Ñ”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“S”, “Ó”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“T”, “Ô”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“Y”, “Õ”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“F”, “Ö”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“X”, “×”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“C”, “Ø”, $test_echo);
$test_echo = str_replace(“V”, “Ù”, $test_echo);

$keywords = $test_echo;
$search_name = ” where customers_lastname like ‘%” . $keywords . “%’ or customers_fax = ‘” . $keywords . “‘”;
$search_name = $db->bindVars($search_name, ‘:keywords:’, $keywords, ‘regexp’);
$sql = “SELECT customers_fax, customers_lastname, customers_firstname
FROM customers
” . $search_name . ”
“;

$rs = mysql_query($sql);

?>

<li id =”" title=”" class=”lista_li”>

<?php
echo $data['customers_lastname'].’ ‘.$data['customers_firstname'].’   AM : ‘.$data['customers_fax'].”;
?>

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I had to search with LATIN characters, because there was a problem with GREEK characters. So when LATIN characters are posted, they are replaced with GREEK characters. And wehen someone wants to search records with LATIN characters in database, he can use lowercase because I replace only upercase characters.