On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 16:18 +0100, Mayer, Jonathan wrote: >> Yup, some good work there Tedd! >> >> In the end I decided the simplest way of coding the functionality was to do >> something similar to what Eric said, and have some extra submit buttons in >> the form, called Next, Previous and Jump. When clicked, they each submitted >> the form again with a different flag set. Along with a session variable >> storing the "current" page, I was able to code a reasonably neat solution >> deciding which results to show without having to rewrite any sections of my >> code. Because these submit buttons are tied to a form at the top of the >> page, this has limited me to only having the navigational buttons at the top >> of the results table rather than at the bottom too, but that is perfectly >> fine in my situation. > > Just a comment... the submit button/session technique sucks with respect > to passing along links to people. I would suggest scrapping that > approach and going with a GET approach (where the navigational > information is present in the URL). I know my clients almost always want > to be able to paste a URL into an email and have the recipient go > directly to whatever they are viewing. Maybe that's not an issue for you > though... yet ;) > > Cheers, > Rob. > -- > http://www.interjinn.com > Application and Templating Framework for PHP > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
That isn't practical if your form has 50 fields though. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
