Extension talk:Page Forms/Autocompleting on outside values

This does not make sense to me. Can anyone provide a better example?

Not working in 2.1.2?
After upgrading to 2.1.2 this is not working for me (I changed 'autocomplete from url' to 'values from url'). Any ideas about how to find the problem? rotsee 09:22, 1 April 2011 (UTC)


 * That's too bad - it works for me. "autocomplete from url=" should still be supported (there's backwards-compatibility) - does that one still work? Yaron Koren 15:23, 1 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry, that's my bad for not reading the updated docs. I didn't change 'input type' to 'text with autocomplete'. rotsee 07:57, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Struggling to make it work. All components seem correct to me.
Hi all,

I'd really appreciate a few pointers here. I'm creating a form that allows autocompletion on Mediawiki user names via a little bit of a hack but I'm trying to learn this technique so I can use it elsewhere (If you know of a better way of autocompletion on user names, I'd be happy to hear it :).

I've done the following:

1) Created a php script that selects of the mediawiki user database and return's the required JSON format


 * The URL:


 * The response:

2) Defined a form with the correct field defined:



3) Edited LocalSettings.php with the following line:



I know that the  is being called by the form and the search string is being passed correctly (I write the query string to a file in the   file) but the problem is that no values are proposed and the spinning wheel in the input field spins continuously.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


 * MediaWiki version: 1.19.2
 * Semantic MediaWiki version: 1.8
 * Semantic Forms version: 2.5.1

--Ironswalt (talk) 19:09, 12 May 2013 (UTC)