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# Contao autoCompleteJs Bundle

This bundle offers support for the JavaScript library [autoComplete.js](https://github.com/TarekRaafat/autoComplete.js) for the Contao CMS.

## Features

- activate autocompletejs support on page level (with inheritance and override option)
- customize options from dca
- [Encore Contracts](https://github.com/heimrichhannot/contao-encore-contracts) support

## Installation

Install via composer: `composer require heimrichhannot/contao-autocompletejs-bundle` and update your database.

## Usage

Active or deactivate autocompletejs support on page level (Layout section). You can overwrite settings from a parent page.

### DCA configuration
To activate autocompletejs on a dca field add

Add `autocompletejs` configuration to the `eval` array of dca field :
```php
'fieldName' => [
'eval' = [
'autocompletejs' => [
'active' => true,
'options' => []
]
]
]
```

#### Example: load data from an API

```php
'fieldName' => [
'eval' = [
'autocompletejs' => [
'active' => true,
'options' => [
'data' => [
'url' => 'https://example.org/users/{query}',
'keys' => ['name', 'city'],
]
]
]
]
]
```

Return value of the api must be an array of objects. The object keys defined in `data.keys` will be used to display the results.

```json
[
{
"name": "John Doe",
"city": "New York"
},
{
"name": "Jane Doe",
"city": "Los Angeles"
}
]
```

#### Configuration options

| Option name | Type | Value |
|--------------|---------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| data | Array | type, url, key, cache |
| data.url | String | url to be fetched for data |
| data.src | Array | array of values if autocomplete options are static values |
| data.keys | Array | keys of the data array if available |
| data.cache | Boolean | cache the input, must be 'false' if data.type is a function |
| searchEngine | String | 'strict', 'loose' or 'none' |
| placeHolder | String | placeholder of the input field |
| selector | String | id of the input field |
| threshold | Integer | minimum number of characters to trigger autocomplete |
| debounce | Integer | idle time after entering new character (milliseconds) |
| maxResults | Integer | maximum number of results shown in the dropdown menu |
| highlight | Boolean | show entered characters in the results dropdown menu |

You can also set all options of the library (see [more](https://tarekraafat.github.io/autoComplete.js/#/configuration)).

#### Custom configuration values
This bundle has a new value for `searchEngine` option : 'none'

Set `searchEngine : 'none'` if no search algorithm should be applied to the result list.
This comes handy if your results are allready searched(eg. result list from an API)

### Styling

A number of custom css properties is available to style the autocompletejs dropdown menu.

The following properties define the overall theme of the dropdown menu and can be overridden for easy styling:

```css
.root {
--huh-autocomplete-clr-text: black;
--huh-autocomplete-clr-bg: white;
--huh-autocomplete-clr-bg-hover: whitesmoke;
--huh-autocomplete-clr-border: var(--bs-primary, var(--huh-autocomplete-clr-text, black));
}
```

Take a look at [autocomplete-bundle.scss](src/Resources/assets/scss/autocomplete-bundle.scss) for a list of all available css properties for further customization.

## Events
| Event name | Description |
|-------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
| CustomizeAutocompletejsOptionsEvent | Used to modify options provided from dca |

### JavaScript Events
Following events can be used to further customize the autocompletejs instances:

Event name | Data | Description
---------- | ---- | -----------
huh.autocompletejs.adjust_result_item | field, item | Customize matched Item in the dropdown menu (`resultItem` configuration option of the autoComplete object)
huh.autocompletejs.onselection | source, data | Customize selection behavior of selected Item (`onSelection` configuration options of the autoComplete object)

### ***!!!Caution!!!*** Known limitations
When fetching data via Controller make sure returning array is numerically consecutive indexed. Or if `key` option is used the array should not be numerically indexed at all. The JSON should never looks like this:
```JSON
{
"0" : {"key" : "value"},
"1" : {"key" : "value"},
"3" : {"key" : "value"}
}
```