[FX.php List] Editing multiple records

[Dale Bengston]

I am also a big fan of script.aculo.us, and use it for doing dynamic  
drop-downs and other cool stuff.

Dale


On Aug 10, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Steve Winter wrote:

> Hi Rob,
>
> I've just had a look at a page I wrote about 2 years ago to do the  
> sort of
> thing that you're looking at, and now, with everything I've learnt  
> in the
> last two years it looks pretty amateur, and pretty ugly, even to me  
> and I'm
> far from an expert, so I didn't want to go posting it on the  
> mailing list...
>
>
> I'll give it a bit of a tidy up tonight (I'm in Australia, so  
> that's in
> about 8 hours time, filemaker's my part-time 'out-of-hours' job)  
> and post
> something more professional on the list in time for your Friday  
> morning...
>
> The Ajax idea that someone else mentioned is also an excellent one,  
> and I've
> been doing quite a bit with the Ajax js classes from http:// 
> script.aculo.us/
> (which includes a couple of nice php examples) and FM recently to good
> effect...
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
> [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Rob H.
> Christensen
> Sent: Friday, 11 August 2006 2:55 a.m.
> To: fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org
> Subject: [FX.php List] Editing multiple records
>
> Hi Steve
> It is something like that I had in my mind. Still have to work out the
> details though. It should not be that big a problem to loop through  
> the
> records 20, 30, 40 or 50 at a time depending on the groupsize and  
> create a
> list with pop-up fields. I can see what you are aiming at, and I  
> will start
> experimenting as soon as I can get my spare machine set up with a  
> copy of
> the database running.  There might be a problem with skips ( the  
> one I use
> now only works, when nothing is edited) but that is just a question of
> finding out how to write the proper values for the links in the  
> next and
> previous buttons. The only things which have to go into the array  
> are the
> new value of the pop-up field with the record ID as its key I  
> think. No
> other data is changeable in this list.
>
> When updating the database with a loop, the key is used to identify  
> the
> record and the date is set from its corresponding value.
>
> I hope that works fast enough. The users of this database, which  
> tracks jobs
> and job-progress, are an impatient lot.
>
> I have been looking around for some examples (I am not that  
> experienced a
> programmer - too many long pauses between writing code) but until  
> now I have
> not found any, so I would like to have a look at your code.
>
> Rob
>
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> In a way you've answered the question yourself... a foreach loop...
>>
>> In the foreach loop that you use yo output the data, instead of
>> outputting a new form for each item, output a hidden field containing
>> the recID of the record, plus the other data... appending [] to the
>> end of each name item (so that it becomes something like <input
> name="-recid[]"
>> value="<?php echo $recordID; ?>"> etc... this way you end up with
>> arrays for each of the records.
>>
>> I'd also add a final hidden field, that contained the
>> $returnedData['foundCount'] so that you knew how many records you  
>> were
>> editing...
>>
>> Once you've submitted the form, you then use that data to loop  
>> through
>> the  posted data, so something like (pseduo, untested code)
>>
>> foreach($i=0, $i<$_POST['foundCount'], $i++) {
>>   $updateRecord->NewFX etc etc
>>   $updateRecord->AddDBParam('-recid',$_POST['-recID'][$i])
>>   $updateRecord->AddDBParam('dataOne',$_POST['dataOne'][$i])
>>   $updateRecord->AddDBParam('dataTwo',$_POST['dataTwo'][$i])
>>   // etc etc
>>   }
>>
>> I'm not in a position to build you a working demo just now, but I  
>> have
>> code that does exactly this I can send you later in the day if you
>> can't get it to work ;-)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> When you submit the form
>
>
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