[FX.php List] New FX features: My $0.02US

[Krauss Bill]

I was thinking about that and almost put it in my request, but then
remembered you can already do a regular "FMFind()" request with the
$returnDataSet parameter set to "false" to get the count.

    	$result_set = $query->FMFind();
 
	$count = $result_set['foundCount'];

And if FMFindData() is implemented, you could always use the PHP count()
function on the returned dataset to get the number of records:

	$data_set = $query->FMFindData();

	$record_count = count($data_set);

Getting the count this way would still be a two-step process this way,
but I think I prefer it, because what I like about the FMFindData() idea
is that it removes one of the levels of the multi-level array. I think
adding foundcount would necessarily put that level back in. 


bill
	

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[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Steve Winter
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 4:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [FX.php List] New FX features: My $0.02US

Bill,

This sounds like a very good suggestion to me, the only thing that I'd
like to see, in addition to the actual data, is the foundcount returned
with that data set...

Cheers
Steve


> Here's a request for something that might also streamline things a
bit,
> but on the other side of the array.
> 
> Most of the time I don't need the full set of information contained
> returned by FMFind(). All I really need is the record values. For
> example, many (if not most) of my scripts contain some variation of
the
> following:
> 
> 	// do the query
>    	$result_set = $query->FMFind();
> 
> 	// pull the data
> 	$data_set = $result_set['data'];
> 
> So, a query that just returned the data would cut down on processing
> and
> memory usage. I wouldn't propose changing the structure of the
FMFind()
> function -- but perhaps you could add a new one called FMFindData()
> that
> doesn't return all the "extra" metadata? This could be considered be
> the
> flipside of the $returnDataSet parameter.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bill Krauss
> 
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> [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Chris
Hansen
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 2:37 PM
> To: FX.php Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Feature Request
> 
> The new functionality won't work exactly as Gjermund suggested.  As I 
> said, this was already in the works, so I had my own ideas on how to 
> implement it.  The way that I think that this would most often be 
> implemented would be as an _optional_ fourth parameter when creating
an
> FX object, like this:
> 
> $myQuery = new FX('192.168.1.9', 80, 'FMPro7', false);
> 
> That last 'false' says, in essence, "we won't be using that last layer

> of the array."  How does that sound to everyone?  I should note that 
> 'true' (unquoted) is the default value, both for legacy purposes, and 
> because of how FileMaker works.  Of course if people really want to, 
> they can change this by tweaking FX.php.
> 
> Best,
> 
> --Chris Hansen
>    creator of FX.php
>    "The best way from FileMaker to the Web."
>    www.iViking.org
> 
> On May 31, 2005, at 7:50 AM, Michael Layne wrote:
> 
> > Not exactly sure how it will work based on example below, but that 
> > would be GREAT.  On occasion, I have a solution with both MySQL and 
> > FM7SA, and when doing any PHP OTHER than FM, you of course don't use

> > the "[0]".  would be one less thing to keep up with.
> >
> > Thanks!  Hopefully it will be clear how to add the 
> > parameter/functionality.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > On May 31, 2005, at 2:58 AM, Chris Hansen wrote:
> >
> >> Yep, this was already in the works.  The default behavior is still 
> >> the same, but can be changed via an optional fourth parameter of
the
> >> FX constructor function, or via a new function added for the
> purpose.
> 
> >>  If anyone has thoughts or suggestions about this, let me know.  
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> --Chris Hansen
> >>   creator of FX.php
> >>   "The best way from FileMaker to the Web."
> >>   www.iViking.org
> >>
> >> On May 30, 2005, at 7:45 AM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> $omptimizeLiveWithoutRepetitions = True; //False;
> >>>
> >>> To avoid the [0] on $value[0]
> >>>
> >>> [0] is only 3 characters, but multiplied with number of fields and

> >>> foundCount,
> >>> this is alot of redundant RAM usage on a server with some traffic.
> >>>
> >>> Gjermund
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