Re: Query or Array functions [message #176967 is a reply to message #176961] |
Fri, 10 February 2012 14:01 |
Scott Johnson
Messages: 196 Registered: January 2012
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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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> I plan to use AJAX and filter as the user types which in itself is not a
>> problem.
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>> 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).
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>> 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.
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>> I have not done any intense array manipulations like this before and am
>> wondering if this seems like a practical approach.
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks
>> Scotty
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> 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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