[FX.php List] Multiple requests with an additional constraint...

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Try: FXQuery

On 10/31/06, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com> wrote:
> Thanks Steve; as you can see, I've been working late tonight...
>
> That's pretty much what I did, but it ended up being easier to query
> for the strings first, then to cull the foundset using the date
> range. It's too bad there isn't a bit more flexibility; it would've
> been so easy if I could've either done a "requery" of the foundset or
> done a mixture of AND and OR in one query.
>
> Chris, are you listening? :)
>
> What do you think, is that doable?
>
> Thanks for your help Steve! Now to sleep!
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Oct 31, 2006, at 12:09 AM, Steve Winter wrote:
>
> > Bob,
> >
> > I'd be inclined just to use a foreach through the returned set, so
> > you'd
> > end up with something like;
> >
> > foreach($returnedData as $key -> $value) {
> >   if($value['domainName'][0] == 'domain 1' ||
> >      $value['domainName'][0] == 'domain 2' ||
> >      $value['domainName'][0] == 'domain 3') {
> >   // output whatever you want here }}
> >
> > Cheers
> > Steve
> >
> >> Steve,
> >>
> >> Thanks for the suggestions; both very good... your 2nd suggestion
> >> sounds like a good one.
> >>
> >> So let's assume I did the date search first (it would probably reduce
> >> the found set more than the other search. Would I then have to loop
> >> thru the records to reduce them, or is there another mechanism in PHP
> >> that would search the array for me?
> >>
> >> I know how to loop thru the found set, but that seems slower than
> >> perhaps some other type of query might be. My knowledge of PHP
> >> extends just far enough to get around in FX, but other than some
> >> fairly minor string manipulation and date parsing, I'm a lightweight
> >> with PHP... :)
> >>
> >> So if you have a suggestion on another way to cull the found set
> >> other than a loop, I'd appreciate any insights...
> >>
> >> Thanks again,
> >>
> >> Bob
> >>
> >>
> >> On Oct 30, 2006, at 10:47 PM, Steve Winter wrote:
> >>
> >>> 1. You could write a script to perform the find for you setting
> >> global
> >>> fields to the values you wish to search on from FX, then calling the
> >>> script to do the actual find...
> >>>
> >>> 2. perform the find with FX that will produce the smallest set of
> >>> records,
> >>> either the date find or the domain name find, then do the second
> >>> find in
> >>> PHP... so if you did the date find from FX, then ran a loop through
> >>> the
> >>> returned values, pulling out those records which meet the domain
> >>> criteria
> >>> (or the reverse, do the FX find for the domain criteria, then the
> >> date
> >>> filtering in PHP...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Couple of ideas... YMMV...
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Steve
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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