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//needs jquery and jquery-ui

// auto complete
  $( "#autocomplete-cities" ).autocomplete({
		source: function(request, response) {
			//console.info(request, 'request');
			//console.info(response, 'response');

			$.ajax({
				//q: request.term,
				url: "<?=site_url('geo/suggested_cities')?>",
				data: { term: $("#autocomplete-cities").val()},
				dataType: "json",
				type: "POST",
				success: function(data) {
					//console.info(data);
					response(data);
				}
			});
		},
		minLength: 2
	});


/* PHP

function suggested_cities()
  {
		$term = $this->input->post('term');

		$query = "SELECT id,accent_city FROM {$this->tbl_geo} WHERE accent_city LIKE '{$term}%' LIMIT 10";

		$cities_data = $this->crud->run_query($query);

		$cities = array();
		foreach($cities_data->result_array() as $key):
			$a = array(
				'id' => trim($key['id']),
				'label' => trim($key['accent_city']),
				'value' => trim($key['accent_city'])
			);

			$cities[] = $a;
		endforeach;

		echo json_encode($cities);
	}

*/