[FX.php List] Record Count after the fact- Revisted

[Jonathan Schwartz]

I'm baaa-aaack...with a wrinkle in the previously discussed issue of 
post-processing a query result to accomplish a combines AND/OR search.

The problem now is dealing with PREV/NEXT links. I didn't realize I 
had a problem until this point.

The process:
1) Perform part 1 of the search with FMP. Say it returns 500 records. 
$searchResult[foundCount'] reports 500, but this is before the 
secondary search and can not be reported back to the user.

2) FMP passes 500 records back to PHP and Part 2 of the search (for 
loop) reduces the 500 records to say, 300. I can report this back to 
the user, but only if I set groupsize high (500) in order to be sure 
to count all the records resulting from the second step.  Set it 
lower and the count could be wrong.

3) I'm ready to post the first 20 records, but I have 300.  If I set 
groupsize to 20, I get say 15.  Can't do that. If I decide to accept 
the 300 records and stop the for loop at 20 records, that would be 
wasting alot of cycles just to to toss 90% of the data.  Plus, how do 
I now deal with the second 20 records with PREV and NEXT links?

Am I thinking about this correctly?  I've already asked the end user 
if they *really* need checkboxes versus radio buttons on this search. 
;-)

J


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Jonathan Schwartz
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