[FX.php List] Alternate grammar?

[Chris Hansen]

Okay.  So what do you propose?

--Chris

On Feb 18, 2013, at 1:29 PM, Nick wrote:

> I wanted to add to this - usePortalIDs=true doesn't do anything unless you have the actual portal object on the layout.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Nick <whatdoyouwant at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you're starting a new project using FM Server 12 (and you use portals on your layouts), it is advisable to set $myQuery->usePortalIDs = true;
> the difference is that portals have their record id/modid instead of zero through x.
> 
> That means that instead of using a for loop, use a foreach loop to walk through the portal records (which is backwards compatible with the old way as well).
> 
> foreach ( $record['PortalTable::IDField'] as $portalkey => $portalIDData)
> {
>   echo $record['PortalTable::OtherField'][$portalkey];
> 
> // only now portalkey is not 0 or 1, etc.  It is recordnumber.modID like the ['data'] array.
>   $portalTable_recordinfo = explode('.', $portalkey);
>   $portalTable_recordid = $portalTable_recordinfo[0];
> // if you wanted to loop through and edit, or something, use the recordID.
> 
> }
> 
> 
> usePortalIDs is set to false currently in order to maintain backwards compatibility with the old code, for people that would use a for loop.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Michael McIntyre <aragon at umich.edu> wrote:
> To answer my own question, fmresultset.xml grammer can be invoked from
> the initial FX call,
>   $myQuery = new FX($dbIP,$dbPort,$dbType);
> where $dbType='fmalt';
> 
> This would be an excellent addition to the PDF documentation.
> 
> ~Michael
> 
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Michael McIntyre <aragon at umich.edu> wrote:
> > What config (in which files) is needed to invoke the fmresultset.xml grammer
> > & RetrieveFM7VerboseData.class.php?
> >
> > I set $dataServerType = 'fmalt' to no avail...
> >
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