Geonames Server jQuery Plugin

This jQuery plugin allows auto-completion for locations in an <input> HTML tag.

It requires an acces to a working Geonames Server.

Dependencies

This plugins depends on the jQuery Autocomplete widget which requires :

• UI core
• Widget Factory
• Position
• Menu

note : This widget requires some functional CSS, otherwise it would not work. If you build a custom theme, use the widget's specific CSS file as a starting point.

Usage

<input id="geoname-id" value="" />
 
<script type="text/javascript">
    $("#geoname-id").geocompleter({
        "server": "http://geonames-server.tld/",
        "limit" : 30,
        "sort" : "population"
    });
</script> 

Options

• sort (optional, string, default value : population) available values :

  • population : The results will be sorted by population.
  • closeness : The results will be sorted by closeness to the place the request was sent from.

• name (optional, string) : Filters city whose begins with a given name.

• country (optional, string) : Only cities located in countries whose name begins with this parameter will be returned.

• limit (optional, string) : The number of results.

• client-ip (optional, string) : This parameter is used within the closeness sort parameter to provide a custom remote IP. /city?sort=closeness&client-ip=80.12.81.19

• init-input (optional, boolean) : option to initialize the autocompleter with a geoname-id

• onInit (optional, function) : callback triggered after plugin initialization, it takes original input and autocomplete input as arguments

Advanced usage

<input id="geoname-id" value="" />
 
<script type="text/javascript">
    var geocompleter = $("#geoname-id").geocompleter({
        "server": "http://geonames-server.tld/",
    });
 
    // You can override any option of the jquery ui autocomplete widget
    // see available options http://api.jqueryui.com/autocomplete/
 
    // setter
    geocompleter.geocompleter("autocompleter", "option", "disabled", true);
    //getter
    geocompleter.geocompleter("autocompleter", "option", "disabled");
 
    // You can bind your own callback to the jquery ui autocomplete events
    geotocompleter("autocompleter", "on", "autocompletechange", function(event, ui) {});
 
    // This plugin defines a custom event when ajax request to the geonames server fails
    geocompleter.geocompleter("autocompleter", "on", "geotocompleter.request.error", function(jqXhr, status, error) {});
</script> 

Run tests

This plugin is testable. You need PhantomJS to run the test suite. Install developer dependencies before running the test suite.

npm install
make test

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.