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

[Joel Shapiro]

Hiya Jonathan

I had a thought from your last thread that I don't remember seeing --  
though maybe I just missed it...

As the php goes through your FM results, can you put all your newly  
filtered, looped-through data into a new array and then subsequently  
only use that?  So that your $filteredResults array would contain  
only the 300 'records' (of the 500 found by FM)?  Then it seems you  
could do whatever you wanted to that data: display the count, re- 
sort, prev/next, etc.

maybe?

-Joel


On Feb 20, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:

> 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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>
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