benmanu/silverstripe-autocomplete

Autocomplete field that can be used as a SilverStripe form field

AutocompleteField

Overview

This is a basic autocomplete field that can be used as a SilverStripe form field which provides a suggestion list based on the current text that has been entered into the field., _(*1)

It uses a custom component built in VueJS to handle the autocomplete. The custom component depends on the https://github.com/paliari/v-autocomplete npm module., _(*2)

Installation

You can install this via:, _(*3)

composer require benmanu/silverstripe-autocompletefield, _(*4)

Javascript Development

This module has https://github.com/JeffreyWay/laravel-mix as an npm dependency which makes it easy to do future javascript development for the module., _(*5)

To get everything setup you just need to run:, _(*6)

yarn install, _(*7)

Once all the npm packages have been installed you can start javascript development using either:, _(*8)

yarn run dev: which will start a watch task that rebundles the src files when files in the javascript/src/ folder are updated., _(*9)

yarn run prod: which you will want to run when finished to produce a production ready build of the javascript src files., _(*10)

TODO

There are a bunch of enhancements that will eventually be added such as:, _(*11)

• Ability to suggest based on an AJAX response
• Ability to customise more options such (e.g. min length of characters before suggesting) when creating the PHP field
• Ability to pass in a DataList and have it automatically turn that into suggestion data