So I'm trying to integrate the select2 type ahead search tool for bootstrap with modx & a custom extra, There are several problems I think I need to solve, but here is what I have so far:
Here is the search box:
<div class="form-group collapse in" id="payee_uid">
<label class="col-md-4 control-label" for="payee_uid">Payee</label>
<div class="col-md-4">
<input type="hidden" id="wayees" name="payee_uid" class="form-control input-md" />
</div>
</div>
The js that controls it:
$('#wayees').select2({
minimumInputLength: 2,
ajax: {
url: "/connectors/search-connector.php",
dataType: 'json',
data: function (term, page) {
return {
q: term
};
},
results: function (data, page) {
return { results: data };
}
}
});
the search connector page, using the freeze uri to get the url & content type correct
[[!flowthroughSearch? &search_what=`getJsonPayees`]]
the flowthroughsearch snippet
<?php
$output = '';
$search_base = $modx->getOption('core_path').'components/modflowthrough/model/';
$search = $modx->getService('modflowthroughsearch', 'modFlowThroughSearch', $search_base, $scriptProperties);
if (!$search instanceof modflowthroughsearch){
return 'modflowthroughsearch broken';exit();
}
$output = $search->$scriptProperties['search_what']();
return $output;
and the function it calls:
public function getJsonPayees(){
$options = $this->modx->getCollectionGraph('Employer', '{}');
$output = array();
foreach($options as $option){
$push = array(
'id' => $option->get('id'),
'text' => $option->get('company_name').' '.$option->get('cams'),
);
array_push($output, $push);
}
return $this->modx->toJSON($output);
}
To start, it seems to be a long roundabout way to get at this thing, I would like to build a little 'connector' in my core/components directory that loads modx & my custom extra model as well. and go from there. so:
- the js builds a request that looks like:
http://nlc.nexus.local/connectors/search-connector.php?q=nor&_=1399394702387, this gives a 404 error [probably because of the FURLs] ,
http://nlc.nexus.local/connectors/search-connector.php comes up no problem. How to fix that?
- I have several modals that call this search [to different tables] several times & could potentially request large data sets, up to 10 times. How can I be sure I am only instantiating my modx & extras object once for all the requests? [because the JS is making individual requests won't it get created up to ten times?]
- my core/components is not web accessible, I'm guessing I'll have to create a [another!] snippet that builds a url to access that file?
Thoughts?
