Disable autocomplete dynamically

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hello!

I’m having problems developing something that seems very easy:

  1. I have a countries DropDownList

  2. I have a cities autocomplete input field.

  3. I only want the autocomplete to work when there is ‘Spain’ selected in the DDL.

  4. I don’t want the autocomplete to work when the other choices are selected.

It seems easy but don’t know how to get through this.

Can someone help me please?

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For this you need to use jQuery…

There are few options depending on your need

One would be:

  • render the city dropdown as disabled…

  • bind the "blur" event to the country field

  • check that the selected value is SPAIN and in that case enable the city dropdown

The other option is:

  • render both dropdowns normaly

  • bind to the "focus" event of the city field

  • check that the country selected value is SPAIN and in that case do whatever you need… like display a nice message like "can be used only for SPAIN"

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Hello mdomba,

Thank you for your response. Maybe I didn’t explain enough.

  1. The Country field is a SELECT without any AJAX.

  2. The cities is an INPUT with the usual YII/AJAX autocomplete with all the spanish cities.

So when (COUNTRY != SPAIN) I want the autofill in the cities INPUT to be disabled (don’t want to autofill all the cities of the world).

Anyway you gave me some ideas, I’ll try…

Thank you!