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

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Now that I have this under my belt (well, almost 
;-) ), I don't know how I managed without it.

Wait...yes I do...I kept the user on a single 
record order form and created line item records 
after the fact.  That wasn't pretty.

No more!

Jonathan


>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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