[FX.php List] RE: Mixed search requests

[Chris Bisgard]

Dale,

Thanks so much. I wondered if that might be the way to go.
Unfortunately, my PHP knowledge is ramping up simultaneously with my
FileMaker knowledge, so I'm struggling with working directly with arrays
returned by FX. It seems to be an array of nested arrays (a print_r of
the data leaves me crosseyed!) and I'm not sure how to pull out records
from this array based on the remaining search criteria. Do you know of
any good PHP resources/tutorials on this? Or can you suggest a PHP
function to start with? I've been reading about working with arrays on
php.net and in my O'Reilly manual, but I'm a little lost as far as
applying these functions to FX query data.

Thank you again for helping yet another newbie.

Chris



> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:04:55 -0500
> From: Dale Bengston <dbengston at preservationstudio.com>
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Mixed search requests
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> Hi Chris,
> 
> Whenever possible, I let PHP do the heavy lifting. As long as your  
> initial found set (based on one criterion) is not a million records,  
> it might be easier to walk the array looking for matches to 
> the other  
> criteria. I'd query FMP with the criterion that will start you out  
> with the smallest record pool, and start from there.
> 
> Dale
>