Select2 is a popular jQuery plugin that makes the default HTML select element to lot more funtional. With <select > element it is not possible to search on the list and add an image to an option, customize the UI.
Select2 allows the loading of data dynamically from the server using AJAX when the user clicked on an element or search.
In this tutorial, I show how you can add select2 in CakePHP 4 and load data dynamically from the MySQL database using jQuery AJAX.
jQuery UI library provided different types of user interface widgets that are easy to implement on the page. One of the powerful widget is autocomplete.
It displays the suggestion list while typing in the input box. You can preload its data on the client side while initialization or load it dynamically using AJAX.
In this tutorial, I show how you can add jQuery UI Autocomplete in CakePHP 4 and load MySQL database data using jQuery AJAX.
Functions are very useful to perform the same task with different parameters. Similar to programming languages you can create your own custom function to perform a task and return a response in MySQL.
After function creation, it is called similar to inbuilt functions.
In this tutorial, I show how you can create a function in MySQL and use it.
Dynamic-dependent dropdowns are very helpful to restrict user selection. You may have already seen this on the registration or profile page of the website where you need to select country, state, and city. Options in the dropdown update every time when a country or state dropdown selection gets changed.
If your tables are properly interlinked in the database and want to list their data on the dropdown then you can make them dynamically dependent on one another and load their data using AJAX.
In this tutorial, I show how you can auto populate dropdown using jQuery AJAX with MySQL database data in CakePHP 4.
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