[FX.php List] links to refine search

[biscuit technologies]

Thanks Tim, this is helpful.

- David

2008/7/16 Tim 'Webko' Booth <tim at nicheit.com.au>:

>
> On 17/07/2008, at 10:46 AM, biscuit technologies wrote:
>
> Thanks Tim,
> I understand what you're getting at, but I don't understand what to do
> about it. Can you explain a bit more please?
>
>
> OK, on your search.php page you have a form (method="post") and a link
> (method="get")
>
> On your results.php, you'll have a section that sets the search variables
> to be used to get the list back. I think your might look like:
>
> $firstLetter = $_POST['cfDatabaseNameFirstLetter'];
>
> to get the first letter to search by. This will work great for a form, but
> will not get populated by a link request, because it is using GET
>
> Easy Solution:
>
> Change to using $_REQUEST['cfDatabaseNameFirstLetter'] - captures both POST
> and GET requests
>
> There are some security implications to this, but I think for your purposes
> these won;t be an issue.
>
> Hope this helps
>
>
>
> - David
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Tim 'Webko' Booth <tim at nicheit.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 17/07/2008, at 10:24 AM, biscuit technologies wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Nick,
>>> I thought something like that would work, but it doesn't. I'm guessing
>>> I've got something wrong somewhere, but I'm not sure where.
>>>
>>> here's the form and the link as html:
>>>
>>> <form action="databases.php" method="post">
>>> <table>
>>> <tr><td><input type="text" size=1 name="<?php echo
>>> 'cfDatabaseNameFirstLetter' ?>" value=""></td><td align="left">(database by
>>> first letter)</td></tr>
>>> <tr><td><input type="text" size=12 name="<?php echo 'Database' ?>"
>>> value=""></td><td align="left">(database)</td></tr>
>>> <tr><td><input type="text" size=12 name="<?php echo
>>> 'Vendors_ALL_by_Database::Vendor' ?>" value=""></td><td
>>> align="left">(vendor)</td></tr>
>>> <tr><td colspan="2">
>>> <input type="submit" name="currentQuery" value="Find Database and/or
>>> Vendor"> or <input type="submit" name="currentQuery" value="Show
>>> All..."></td></tr></table>
>>> </form>
>>> </p>
>>> <p>Find by First Letter of DB name: <a
>>> href="databases.php?cfDatabaseNameFirstLetter=a">A</a></p>
>>>
>>> The search for cfDatabaseNameFirstLetter works for any letter in the
>>> form, but never as a coded string.
>>>
>>
>> And your results page is using $_POST in order to process the request,
>> which doesn;t work for a GET request (ie, a link...)
>>
>> $_REQUEST
>>
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