multiple values suggestion in textbox with jquery autocomplete - php

Question

Could someone kindly help me adding some modifications to my php code so that it allows users to get more than one auto-suggestion? (Now it works fine for one value, but I would like that he/she receives auto suggest for more values, (for example after inserting a comma, again auto-complete suggestions will be shown ).
This is the HTML code:
<p><label>Actor/actress:</label><input type='text' name='name' value='' class='auto'></p>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.1/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
//autocomplete
$(".auto").autocomplete({
source: "actorsauto.php",
minLength: 2
});
});
</script>
and this is php code:
<?php
define('DB_SERVER', 'localhost');
define('DB_USER', 'root');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'xxxxxx');
define('DB_NAME', 'imdb');
if (isset($_GET['term'])){
$return_arr = array();
try {
$conn=new PDO('mysql:dbname=imdb;host=localhost', 'root', 'xxxxx');
$conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
$stmt = $conn->prepare('SELECT name FROM name WHERE name LIKE :term');
$stmt->execute(array('term' => '%'.$_GET['term'].'%'));
while($row = $stmt->fetch()) {
$return_arr[] = $row['name'];
}
} catch(PDOException $e) {
echo 'ERROR: ' . $e->getMessage();
}
/* Toss back results as json encoded array. */
echo json_encode($return_arr);
}
?>
I am newbie in jquery and php and appreciate all your ideas.

Answer 1

You can put together a where statement by spliting the search term, for example at every space the user typed. Let's say he searched for music cd. The following code would get everything that has the string cd or music in it.
$stmt = $conn->prepare('SELECT name FROM name WHERE :where');
if($_GET['term']){
$termParts = explode(' ', $_GET['term']);
$whereParts = array()
foreach($termParts as $term){
$whereParts[] "name LIKE '%".$term."%'";
}
$where = implode(' OR ', $whereParts);
} else {
$where = 1;
}
$stmt->execute(array('where' => $where));