[FX.php List] Entering Data in repeating field

[Kevin Futter]

On 25/7/06 12:17 PM, "Jon Montgomery" <vicepresident at onecliq.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>     Have been working with FX and PHP for about a month.  The longer I work,
> the more I find I do not know.  In a FileMaker data base, how do you code to
> enter data into a repeating field.
> 
>     Example- Data base that enters students in a music contest.  Some records
> have single first and last name for a solo performance.  Where other records
> require as many as 20 first names and 20 last names for lets say a quartet.
> 
>     How do you enter that info into FileMaker via FX and php?
> 
>     I do enjoy reading all of the list question and answers even if I do not
> understand them yet.
> 
> Jon Montgomery

I¹ve never had to enter data into a repeating field via the web, but I¹ve
certainly had to pull data out. As far as I remember, you access repeating
fields thusly:

$value[³fieldName1²][0];

... where the [0] represents the repeated data. For example,

$value[³fieldName1²][1];

... would represent the repeating field¹s second value.

So, I¹d access repeating field values with something like this:

foreach ($ReturnedData['data'] as $key => $value)
{
    $i = 0;
    while ($i < 20)
    {
        echo $value[ŒrepeatingField¹][$i] . ³<br />\n²;
        $i++;
    }
}

This is all of the top of my head of course, so it¹s completely untested (I
no longer seem to have the code I once used to do this on a working web
page). Also, as I said, it¹s only designed to retrieve data from repeating
fields, as an example of how to access them. I¹m a bit under the weather
today, so my brain won¹t stretch to nutting out an example of writing to one
at the moment.

-- 
Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/



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