Hi Alan,

No, the references are singular, this is because they are actually references to the model names, not the table names. This perhaps needs to be made more clear in the documents.

Forgive me for asking, but have you replaced My ID in this code snippet with a valid taxon list ID? If you have, then the next step would be to try the system_check method, described here: http://code.google.com/p/indicia/wiki/T … ngProblems. This will pick up any problems in your setup.

Best Wishes

Hi Alan
Don't know why I didn't spot the system_check error when I wrote the tutorial - I guess I must have had a different error reporting level in PHP so I didn't see the error at the time. Anyway I've committed a change so this parameter is optional - you can get around it for now by changing the call to data_entry_helper::system_check(true). But I don't think it will tell you any more - only that without a geoplanet_api_key setting the location search functionality won't work, but this is not a problem if you are not using the functionality. 

What are the symptoms of this autocomplete control not working? The code you are outputing looks correct - as the value will only be populated when you select something. One thing that crossed my mind - have you included a call to data_entry_helper::dump_javascript() near the bottom of the page? If not, the JavaScript associated with the autocomplete control cannot be output into the page so the control won't work.

Cheers

Hi Alan,

So what are the actual symptoms? I've pasted your code into a new page here, changed the website ID, password and checklist ID to something on my database and it works fine so at least there is nothing wrong in your code.

For now I will assume the problem is that the control appears but if you type in something it does not drop down with a list of species name matches? If so, here are a couple of things you can try:
1) If you use FireFox, try the Firebug addin. This lets you see AJAX calls on the Console tab, so you can check the response. E.g. if you have an incorrect website ID or password, you will get {"error":"Unknown Exception: unauthorised"} back, but the control will just appear to not work. In fact Firebug is an excellent tool for client-side web debugging so I'd recommend giving it a try if you haven't already.
2) Have you checked your application\logs folder to see if anything is posted when you try to use the control? As usual when debugging setting your log threshold to 4 in the config.php file will help capture the most information.
3) Try adding the following code to the page which will do a check of various settings and warn you of any problems:

echo data_entry_helper::system_check(true);

Let me know how you get on,

... and I've just realised the problem is with the Google Chrome browser I've been using as default. Works fine in IE8 (I'd previously checked this but not after I'd fixed other problems). Firefox I'd removed from my system because of some incompatability problems after I'd moved to Win 7 which I didn't have time to look into. I'll have to try installing again (I have found Firebug very useful in the past).

I'll see if I can establish what the problem is with Chrome.

Sorry to have wasted your time on this.

Cheers

Alan