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Re: pagination driving me insane

From Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: pagination driving me insane
Date 2011-06-23 13:27 -0400
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On 6/23/2011 1:24 PM, Co wrote:
> On 22 jun, 19:17, Jerry Stuckle<jstuck...@attglobal.net>  wrote:
>> On 6/22/2011 12:57 PM, Co wrote:
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>>> On 22 jun, 17:54, Jerry Stuckle<jstuck...@attglobal.net>    wrote:
>>>> On 6/22/2011 8:50 AM, Co wrote:>>>    Marco
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>>>>>> So, make up your mind.  Do GET or POST - don't try to do both.
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>>>>>> And once again - look at what you have in your $_GET and $_POST arrays,
>>>>>> and use them to trace through the code.  Figure out what it's doing.
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>>>>    >    Jerry,
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>>>>    >    i need the POST to search in my members accounts.
>>>>    >    The problem is that PHP loses the query I run when I goto the next
>>>>    >    page.
>>>>    >    I preferred using a session variable but I wasn't able to get rit of
>>>>    >    the variable after I filled it. So everytime when I come back to the
>>>>    >    page it will automatically use the session variable again.
>>>>    >    Or is there a way to clear the session variable when I load the page?
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>>>>    >    Marco
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>>>> <Top posting fixed>
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>>>> No, it's no longer there because the browser didn't send it.  PHP didn't
>>>> lose anything.  From the browser's point of view, each page is a new
>>>> request to the server, and the browser sends only what you tell it to send.
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>>>> What you need to do is determine if this a new search or a continuation
>>>> of the previous search (i.e. display the next page).  If the former,
>>>> clear your old $_SESSION values (if any) and put new ones in there and
>>>> display the first page.  If the latter, use the data stored in the
>>>> $_SESSION and display the next page of the search.
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>>>> There are any number of ways to determine if it is a continuation page;
>>>> i.e. the $_GET or $_POST value has "page=next" or "page=3" in it; the
>>>> current page number is in a hidden field in the form or similar.  A new
>>>> search wouldn't have those values.
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>>> I will try to work on that.
>>> But can I clear the session before I open the page so that an
>>> older session that I used ealier will be cleared until I hit the
>>> submit button? I don't want to clear the whole sessions just the one
>>> variable.
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>>> Marco
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>> You can unset() any element you want in the $_SESSION array.  But you
>> can't do ANYTHING until the user requests a page - your code doesn't get
>> invoked until that time.
>>
>> --
>> ==================
>> Remove the "x" from my email address
>> Jerry Stuckle
>> JDS Computer Training Corp.
>> jstuck...@attglobal.net
>> ==================
>
> I have been trying the following code but I get an error when I click
> the next page on my form:
>
> if(isset($_POST['listByq'])&&  $_POST['listByq'] != "add") {
>      unset($_SESSION['listByq']);
> 	$option = "";
> 	$_SESSION['listByq'] = $_POST['listByq'];
> }
>
> if(isset($_SESSION['listByq'])) {
>     $option = $_SESSION['listByq'];
>   if ($option == "by_country") {
>
> 	$country = $_POST['country'];
>
>      $queryString = "WHERE country='$country' AND email_activated='1'";
>      $queryMsg = "Showing Members from the country you searched for";
>
> } else if ($option == "by_firstname") {
>
> 	$firstname = $_POST['fname'];
> 	$firstname = stripslashes($firstname);
>      $firstname = strip_tags($firstname);
> 	$firstname = eregi_replace("`", "", $firstname);
> 	$firstname = mysql_real_escape_string($firstname);
>      $queryString = "WHERE rank LIKE '%$firstname%' OR firstname LIKE '%
> $firstname%' OR lastname LIKE '%$firstname%' AND email_activated='1'";
>      $queryMsg = "Showing Members with the name you searched for";
>
> } else if ($option == "newest_members") {
>
>      $queryString = "WHERE email_activated='1' ORDER BY id DESC";
> 	$queryMsg = "Showing Newest to Oldest Members";
> }
>
> }  // end of if(isset($_SESSION....
>
>
> Notice: Undefined index: fname
>
> When the POST has been done there is no problem but after that it
> doesn't recognise fname or country anymore.
>
> Marco

That's because they weren't in the form, so the browser can't send them.


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Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
jstucklex@attglobal.net
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pagination driving me insane Co <vonclausowitz@gmail.com> - 2011-06-21 14:22 -0700
  Re: pagination driving me insane Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-06-21 22:18 -0400
    Re: pagination driving me insane Co <vonclausowitz@gmail.com> - 2011-06-21 22:02 -0700
      Re: pagination driving me insane Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-06-22 06:34 -0400
        Re: pagination driving me insane Co <vonclausowitz@gmail.com> - 2011-06-22 05:50 -0700
          Re: pagination driving me insane Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-06-22 10:54 -0400
            Re: pagination driving me insane Co <vonclausowitz@gmail.com> - 2011-06-22 09:57 -0700
              Re: pagination driving me insane Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-06-22 13:17 -0400
                Re: pagination driving me insane Co <vonclausowitz@gmail.com> - 2011-06-23 10:24 -0700
                Re: pagination driving me insane Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-06-23 13:27 -0400
                Re: pagination driving me insane Co <vonclausowitz@gmail.com> - 2011-06-23 11:08 -0700
                Re: pagination driving me insane Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-06-23 15:03 -0400

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