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Re: Query or Array functions

From Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: Query or Array functions
Date 2012-02-10 06:01 -0800
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On 2/10/2012 2:44 AM, Captain Paralytic wrote:
> On Feb 10, 1:18 am, Scott Johnson<nooneh...@chalupasworld.com>  wrote:
>> OK I will try to ask this and make sense out of this also.
>>
>> First off I am doing this on a back-end admin page.
>> I have a DB with lets say 5000 records and a dozen or more fields.
>>
>> On the page which will display these records I am planning on using
>> pagination to display so many records at once.  So far so good.
>>
>> What i would like to do is provide a row above the table of records
>> where the user can enter text to filter the display on each column.
>>
>> I plan to use AJAX and filter as the user types which in itself is not a
>> problem.
>>
>> The problem I see is the numerous DB queries and I don't see querying
>> the DB each time the user types a letter as a practical approach. (I
>> could be wrong).
>>
>> What I was thinking of doing is loading the full record set into an
>> array and then filter out the array of the needed data as the user types.
>>
>> I have not done any intense array manipulations like this before and am
>> wondering if this seems like a practical approach.
>>
>> I would like to ask for any advice or suggestions on this.  I may even
>> have my head in the wrong area and not see the forest thru the trees.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Scotty
>
> If you're going to g the ajax route, I can recommend
> http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/. You will find an example there
> that does almost exactly what you are talking about.

Hmmm.  Very worth a deeper look.  Thanks for the resource.

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Query or Array functions Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-02-09 17:18 -0800
  Re: Query or Array functions Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2012-02-10 02:39 +0100
    Re: Query or Array functions Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-02-10 05:54 -0800
      Re: Query or Array functions Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-02-10 09:26 -0500
  Re: Query or Array functions "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2012-02-10 09:26 +0100
    Re: Query or Array functions Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-02-10 06:01 -0800
    Re: Query or Array functions "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2012-02-11 11:20 -0600
  Re: Query or Array functions "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-02-10 11:12 +0100
  Re: Query or Array functions Captain Paralytic <paul_lautman@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-10 02:44 -0800
    Re: Query or Array functions Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-02-10 06:01 -0800
      Re: Query or Array functions Captain Paralytic <paul_lautman@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-10 06:11 -0800
      Re: Query or Array functions Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-11 00:03 +0100
        Re: Query or Array functions Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2012-02-11 11:03 +0100
          Re: Query or Array functions Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-11 12:06 +0100
  Re: Query or Array functions Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-10 12:06 +0100
    Re: Query or Array functions Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-10 12:32 +0100
    Re: Query or Array functions Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-02-10 05:43 -0800

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