[FX.php List] Record Count after the fact

[Bob Patin]

That makes complete sense; I mix PHP & HTML like that all the time.  
Some guys don't seem to like it, but I'm used to it and it works fine  
in my forms.

BP


On Feb 16, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> I'm trying to write the html, including the results of the php if  
> statment to a variable ($temphtml).  At the end of the process, I  
> want to echo out the $temphtml.  The original reason for this is to  
> be able to count the records that are being evaluated  after  
> returning from the FMP query.  The reason for this was to deal with  
> a compound query that FMP could not handle nateively. Phew!
>
> Back to your suggestion...it doesn't look like it builds the  
> $temphtml variable.
>
> That being said, and still not being able to embed a php if  
> statement in the *middle* of building $html, I did succeed in  
> removing all the php if statements out of the middle of the loop  
> and placed them at the top of the loop, evaluated them there and  
> set the values in temporary variables...and then built the  
> $temphtml in the normal way, having eliminated the in-line if  
> statements.
>
>
> $temphtml = ''
> foreach($searchResult['data'] as $key => $value)
>  {
> 	if(this == that) { $tempdata = "xxx"}; //moved these if statements  
> to top.
>
> 	$temphtml = '<tr><td>blah</td></tr>
> 		    <tr><td>'.$tempdata.'</td></tr>';
> }
>
> If there is a better way, I'd love to know it.
>
> J
>
>
>> Jonathan,
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>>
>> <?
>> $temphtml ='';	//set my variable for collecting the html
>> foreach($searchResult['data'] as $key => $value) {
>> 	$temphtml = $temphtml;
>> 	?>
>> 	<tr><td>blah</td></tr>
>>  	<tr><td><?php if(empty($value['flag'][0] ))  { echo "$".$value 
>> ['price'][0]; }else{ echo "Call"; }?>
>> 	<tr><td>blah</td></tr>
>> 	<?php
>> }
>> ?>
>>
>>
>> Bob Patin
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>>>>
>>>> On Feb 15, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I could do that.  However, that would then add a second for  
>>>>> loop: one to reduce the data set and write the results to an  
>>>>> array and one to write the array for display...in addition to  
>>>>> the FMP query. (Hey guys....do you believe that this kind of  
>>>>> talk is coming from me...former beginner. ;-)   ).
>>>>>
>>>>> Seems that this is particularly resource intensive,  No?
>>>>>
>>>>> Jonathan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> At 11:25 AM -0500 2/15/07, Andy Gaunt wrote:
>>>>>> Jonathan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rather than do a new page, can you do your for loop outside  
>>>>>> the HTML first
>>>>>> (writing everything to a new variable) then echoing this to  
>>>>>> your page once
>>>>>> completed?. If so then you could increment a counter variable  
>>>>>> when the
>>>>>> record matches your criteria ( $counter++; ) and then echo  
>>>>>> this out before
>>>>>> you echo out your content from the loop.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andy Gaunt
>>>>>> Office: 321.206.3658
>>>>>> Mobile: 407.810.4722
>>>>>> andy at fmpug.com
>>>>>> http://www.fmpug.com
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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