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    copied!<p>The autocomplete doesn't work: Is the whole approach wrong or have I made only some errors?</p> <pre><code>#!/usr/local/bin/perl use warnings; use 5.014; use utf8; use Mojolicious::Lite; use DBI; my $dbh = DBI-&gt;connect( ... ) or die $DBI::errstr; my $table = 'my_table'; get '/input' =&gt; sub { my $self = shift; $self-&gt;render( 'input' ); }; get '/search_db' =&gt; sub { my $self = shift; my $col = $self-&gt;param( 'col' ); my $sth = $dbh-&gt;prepare( "SELECT $col FROM $table" ); $sth-&gt;execute(); my $ref; while ( my $row = $sth-&gt;fetchrow_arrayref() ) { push @$ref, @$row; } $self-&gt;render( json =&gt; $ref ); }; app-&gt;start; __DATA__ @@ input.html.ep &lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;Test&lt;/title&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /&gt; &lt;script src="/js_local/development-bundle/jquery-1.6.2.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script src="/js_local/development-bundle/ui/jquery.ui.core.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script src="/js_local/development-bundle/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script src="/js_local/development-bundle/ui/jquery.ui.position.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script src="/js_local/development-bundle/ui/jquery.ui.autocomplete.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; $(function() { $("#vorname").autocomplete({ source: '/search_db?col=vorname', minLength: 2 }); }); &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;form&gt; &lt;table&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Vorname:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="text" id="vorname" name="vorname" autocomplete="off"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Nachname:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="text" id="nachname" name="nachname" autocomplete="on" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="OK"/&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>I think I am one step further: now after the second character I get all the names appear as a selection.</p>
 

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