#4 value/description pairs

[Anonymous]

For an autocompleting dropdown to be truly useful for
any of the webapps I program, it needs to be able to
pair a value and description, like a standard HTML
"select" box. The autocomplete searching would be
against the description but when you submit the form,
it's the value that gets passed. Would something like
this be possible for WICK ?

[Chris Holland]

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interesting! we can certainly look into it. i may have a use for that myself.
thanks for your input!

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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the sooner, the better - I would have an immediate use for
it. I could try to help implement it, but I'll warn you my
javascript isn't exactly industrial-strength.

[Chris Skinner]

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I would also have a use for something like that. The
collection structure could be built on the back end and when
selected, the value could be a url that gets called. I'll help
too but my js is also pretty weak.

[Bill Coghill]

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I'll second that request. It might be easier to impliment
as a second array with the value required that could then be
returned. At the moment I am doing a lookup in mySQL on the
returned string and matching the record id. Its a bit of a
kludge, but seems to work.

Any thoughts ? javascript is new to me, but PHP and mySQL
is where my skills are.

Bill