jQuery UI Autocomplete with CI ??

[eluser]pickupman[/eluser]
Since jQuery UI sends the search term as a get parameter you will either enable query strings, or use a js callback function.

Code:

//Javascript
$(".productpicker").autocomplete({
            minLength: 1,
            source: function(req, add){
                $.ajax({
                    url: '<?php echo site_url('search');?>',
                    dataType: 'json',
                    type: 'POST',
                    data: req,
                    success: function(data){
                        if(data.response =='true'){
                           add(data.message);
                        }
                    }
                });
            },
            select: function(event, ui){}
              log(ui.item ? ("Selected: " + ui.item.value + " aka " + ui.item.id) : "Nothing selected, input was " + this.value);
        });

//In controller
$keyword = $this->input->post('term');

$data['response'] = 'false'; //Set default response

$query = $this->your_model->search($keyword); //Search DB

if($query->num_rows() > 0){
   $data['response'] = 'true'; //Set response
   $data['message'] = array(); //Create array
   foreach($query->$result as $row){
      $data['message'][] = array('label'=> $row->name, 'value'=> $row->name); //Add a row to array
   }
}
echo json_encode($data);