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

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

And then you would only need $_SESSION['filteredResultMax'] and
$_SESSION['filteredResultSkip'] to display your desired data.

ggt667

On 2/21/07, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen <ggt667 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would put the new filtered result in $_SESSION['filteredResults']
>
> ggt667
>
> On 2/20/07, Joel Shapiro < jsfmp at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Jonathan Schwartz
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