[FX.php List] Alternate grammar?

[Nick]

Just to document that behavior.  The portals use the old behavior when
there is not a portal object.

Developers iterating portals should always use foreach and not a for loop
to keep compatibility for both ways.


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Chris Hansen <chris at iviking.org> wrote:

> 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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