Remote data loading from SQL with Selectize.js - selectize.js

Question

As you will notice, I am a data scientist and not a programmer / developper.
In SQL, I have a database with ten-thousands of names. I managed to implement the selectize.js tool in my twitter bootstrap website, but it loads way to slow. On the help page from Selectize.js, https://github.com/brianreavis/selectize.js/blob/master/docs/usage.md, I read that it is possible to load options on the fly when the user enters something.
But from the examples I can not find out how to do this from an SQL table. Can somebody write in pseudo code what I would have to do?
In short, when the user types some names, I want the script to go find in the SQL table these names and make select html tags, rather than downloading everyname already at the beginning.
This is the code I have at the moment:
<div class="control-group">
<select id="select-yourself" class="demo-default" placeholder="Type your name...">
<option value="">Type your name ...</option>
<?php
for($row = 0; $row < sizeof($race_table); $row++){
echo("<option value=".$row.">".
$race_table[$row]['Name']."</option>");
}
?>
</select>
</div>
<script>
$('#select-yourself').selectize({
create: false,
maxOptions: 100,
//sortField: {
//field: 'text',
//direction: 'asc'
//},
dropdownParent: 'body'
});

Answer 1

You could try something like:
HTML:
<div class="control-group">
<select id="select-yourself" class="demo-default" placeholder="Type your name...">
<option value="">Type your name ...</option>
</select>
</div>
JavaScript:
$('#select-yourself').selectize({
valueField: 'name',
labelField: 'name',
searchField: 'name',
options: [],
create: false,
load: function(query, callback) {
if (!query.length) return callback();
$.ajax({
url: 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/getnames.php',
type: 'GET',
dataType: 'json',
data: {
name: query,
},
error: function() {
callback();
},
success: function(res) {
callback(res);
}
});
}
});
PHP file (getnames.php) is used only to create json file from mysql database data:
<?php
// parameters from URL
$urlparam_name = $_GET['name'] ."%";
// connect to the database
include("mysql.inc");
$link = mysqli_connect($host, $user, $pass, $db) or die("Error " .mysqli_error($link));
$sql = "
SELECT `race_table`.`name`
FROM `race_table`
WHERE `race_table`.`name` like '$urlparam_name'
GROUP BY `race_table`.`name` ASC
";
$result = mysqli_query($link, $sql) or die("Error " .mysqli_error($link));
$rows = array();
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
{
extract($row);
$rows[] = "{ \"name\": \"$name\" }";
}
// output to the browser
header('Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=UTF-8');
echo "[\n" .join(",\n", $rows) ."\n]";
?>