[FX.php List] Accepting user input on multiple records simultaneously

[Dale Bengston]

Okay. Got it now! That sounds good.

Thanks,
Dale

On Apr 24, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:

> Dale,
>
> In the case that I am working on (Case 1 below, owner records) ,  
> the records belong to the user and no one else would be editing.
>
> In Case 2 below (non owner records) , I would use sessions and then  
> the flagged records would only exist in the session.
>
> That flys, right?
>
> J
>
>> Jonathan,
>>
>> Since you have now edited those records to flag them (I'm  
>> assuming), what happens when a second user comes in and flags some  
>> records?
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> On Apr 24, 2007, at 11:54 AM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>> Erik,
>>>
>>> Very sorry for the late response.
>>>
>>> You had an interesting suggestion and I thank you for taking the  
>>> time.
>>>
>>> It turns out that the brute force method of querying every record  
>>> to update them is the way to go.  With just a single data field  
>>> edit, it doesn't take long at all....at least not at the current  
>>> load.  We'll see what happens when that grows.  ;-)
>>>
>>> There are actually two cases that I forsee for the "Additional  
>>> Proccessing":
>>> 	1) Update real records
>>> 	2) Parse a list of session records that the user doesn't own, as  
>>> in the case of performing a comparison between products.  In this  
>>> case, I will just deal with the session array.
>>>
>>> Thanks again for your help.
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>> At 10:42 AM +0800 4/24/07, Erik Andreas Cayré wrote:
>>>> Den 24/04/2007 kl. 9.35 skrev Jonathan Schwartz:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'd love to see your code for the form, and the $_POST handler
>>> (btw. did you see my idea for solving the problem in FM?)
>>>
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