International Association
for Cryptologic Research

API for autocomplete of author names

In systems that incorporate human-entered content into cryptodb, it is important to match authors to existing records, because names are not sufficiently unique identifiers for authors or committee members. For example, the authors Nigel Smart and N. Smart and Nigel P. Smart are probably the same person, but a database has a hard time determining this.

For this reason, I now provide an auto-complete system that will automatically match what the user types against existing names in the cryptodb database. An example is shown here:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
   // apply autocomplete to the author class
  $(".author").autocomplete({
    source: "/cryptodb/data/jquery/query.php",
    minLength: 2,
    scrollHeight: 200,
    contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
    max: 50,
    select: function(event, ui) {
     var id = $(this).attr('id');
     var index = id.split("_")[1];
     $("#author_id_" + index).val(ui.item.id);
    }
   });
   
  });
</script>

<input type="text" class="author" id="author_1">
<input type="text" id="author_id_1">

<input type="text" class="author" id="author_2">
<input type="text" id="author_id_2">