[FX.php List] Conditional value lists with PHP and FileMaker

Gjermund Gusland Thorsen ggt667 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 16:39:03 MST 2008


I would like to see the output from:

print_r( $distResult['data'] );

for at least 2 districts

ggt

2008/11/20 Anders Monsen <andersm at alamark.com>:
> Yep, from the code it should have worked out that way, and once I added the
> [0] so the value appeared and not Array, then it worked as planned.
>
> Thanks,
> Anders
>
>
> On Nov 19, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Tim 'Webko' Booth wrote:
>
>>>
>>>
>>> However, because the values are not unique in the table, the value list
>>> is showing up with multiple values for the same district. I may need to see
>>> if I can get the FileMaker database re-structured to eliminate the duplicate
>>> values in the current table. I think the complicated way I created the array
>>> previously filtered it for unique values only.
>>
>> If you've sorted the results, then you can compare the previous value to
>> the next to see if it should be written into the drop-down. This is example
>> from one one of my systems with the same issue (well, it's actually
>> deliberate in this one, as I'm getting a drop-down of available lengths
>> compared to diameters)
>>
>>                $lengthDupe = "";
>>                foreach ($thelengthData as $key => $value) {
>>                        if ($value['Length_mm'][0] != $lengthDupe) {
>>                                $lengthOut .= '<option
>> value="'.$value['Length_mm'][0].'">'.$value['Length_mm'][0].' mm</option>';
>>                                $lengthDupe = $value['Length_mm'][0];
>>                        }
>>                }
>>
>> Also, I've done something very similar at
>> http://www.pleatco.com/search/search.php (which is where the code above is
>> from) for the Dimensions search - I use LAJAX for the call on the fly. Let
>> me know if you want more info about that technique.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Webko
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