Tokeninput is a jQuery plugin that allows users to select multiple items from a predefined list.
- Download jquery token input plugin from https://loopj.com/jquery-tokeninput/
- Extract the zip file and put jquery.tokeninput.js and token-input.css in the application root folder.
- Download the latest version of jquery.min.js
SQL
CREATE TABLE `user` (
`id` int(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`name` varchar(40) DEFAULT NULL,
`designation` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
`email` varchar(40) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4;
INSERT INTO `user` (`id`, `name`, `designation`, `email`) VALUES
(1, 'User1', 'Senior Manager', 'user1@gm.com'),
(2, 'User2', 'Head of IT', 'aru@rrg.com');
PhP Code
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
<title>Token input Demo</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link
href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:400,700,300|Open+Sans:400,300,600,700"
rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="css/bootstrap.min.css?ver=3.3.5" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="css/token-input.css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
<?php
error_reporting(0);
$con = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "", "rgcbres_accounts");
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
?>
<script src="js/jquery-3.5.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.tokeninput.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#nameinput").tokenInput("tget-users.php", {
});
});
</script>
<body>
<div id="content" class="site-content">
<div class="container">
<h4>Token Input Demo</h4>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="post"
id="searchform" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<div class="col-sm-12">
<div class="form-group">
<label class="control-label col-sm-3" for="scst">Name <font
style="color: red;">*</font></label>
<div class="col-sm-6">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" id="nameinput" name="nameinput" required=""
class="form-control" placeholder="" />
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-12">
<div class="col-sm-6">
<div class="col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-10">
<input type="submit" class="btn btn-default" name="Submit"
value="Submit">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</form>
<?php
if ($_POST['Submit']) {
if (trim($_POST['nameinput']) != "") {
$selected_name_arr = array();
$selected_nameinput = $_POST['nameinput'];
$selected_name_arr = explode(',', $selected_nameinput);
?>
<div class="col-sm-12">
<form class="form-horizontal" id="saveform" action="#" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data">
<table id="editableTable" class="table table-bordered">
<thead>
<tr>
<td style="width: 5%;"><b>SL.No.</b></td>
<td style="background-color: #f0ad4e; width: 15%;"><b> Name </b></td>
<td style="background-color: #f0ad4e; width: 20%;"><b>
Designation </b></td>
<td style="background-color: #f0ad4e; width: 20%;"><b> Email </b></td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<?php
$sql = "SELECT * FROM user WHERE id IN (" . implode(',', $selected_name_arr) . ")";
$result = $con->query($sql);
$sino = 1;
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
// output data of each row
while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $sino; ?>
<td><?php echo $row[name]; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row[designation]; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row[email]; ?></td>
</tr>
<?php
$sino ++;
}
}
?>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</form>
<?php
}
}
?>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
tget-users.php
<?php
$con = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "", "rgcbres_accounts");
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
$users_arr = array();
$searchTerm = $_GET['q'];
$query = $con->query("SELECT id,name FROM user WHERE name LIKE '".$searchTerm."%' ORDER BY name ASC LIMIT 15");
if($query->num_rows > 0){
while($row = $query->fetch_assoc()){
$users_arr[] = $row;
}
}
echo json_encode($users_arr);
?>
