Re: Fw: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar

yes its definitely quite an interesting piece.... I can't comment on its origins either, but I'm sure even before it was placed into practice you could always use the event handling routines of the HTML anchor element which of course would be: ONCLICK="myFunction(parameters,...); return true;" and/or the many others: ONMOUSEDOWN, ONMOUSEUP, ONKEYPRESS, etc etc http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/dtd.html#events Anyway, enjoy ;-) ---oOo--- Allowing users to execute CGI scripts in any directory should only be considered if: ... a.. You have no users, and nobody ever visits your server. ... Extracted Quote: Security Tips - Apache HTTP Server ---oOo--- ------oOo---------------oOo------ Julien Bonastre [The_RadiX] The-Spectrum Network CEO ABN: 64 235 749 494 julien@the-spectrum.org www.the-spectrum.org ------oOo---------------oOo------ ----- Original Message ----- From: <dpgirago@mdanderson.org> To: <php-db@lists.php.net>; <julien@the-spectrum.org> Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 1:03 AM Subject: Re: Fw: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar

Thanks for weighing in on the question, Julien. It's an intranet application, and I have some influence with the users' browser settings, so I used Javascript. I have to admit though that I was unaware you could pass a function from an anchor href tag (<a href="javascipt:myFunction(paramenters,...);">link</a>, for those similarly in the dark). Dynamically creating the links with their associated offset for use with MySQL's "limit" syntax works very well. I'm curious if anybody knows how long Javascript has supported this syntax? I found example scripts using it beginning in chapter 15 of Danny Goodman's "JavaScript Bible" (5th Edition) 2004, so I'm guessing it's part of the Document Object Model specification, but I didn't explore it's origins. Thanks Bastien and Julien. David

From: "Julien Bonastre" <julien@the-spectrum.org> To: "Bastien Koert" <bastien_k@hotmail.com> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 11:01 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar

I would suggest using the GET method.. Unless you have some reason you don't want the data passed via GET.. In which case I suggest just storing all that in a session.. So for example, I wouldn't want to pass a big ugly html-encoded query string via the GET URI, as it would look awful Instead, set a session variable holding that query and any related

details

you are also processing [ie user selected sorting of results [ascending/descending] etc, fields to sort by, whatever options you have]

and just pass a 'pg' value via get such as ./search.php?pg=2 or something.. As as alternative to the javascript form POSTing method.. Its up to you, I'm just providing an alternative to using Javascript

which

as someone else outlined is CLIENT side, hence you are relying on correct

operation by the browser for it to work.. I don't like relying on the clients browser, I like relying on my code.. Enjoy ---oOo--- Allowing users to execute CGI scripts in any directory should only be considered if: ... a.. You have no users, and nobody ever visits your server. ... Extracted Quote: Security Tips - Apache HTTP Server ---oOo--- ------oOo---------------oOo------ Julien Bonastre [The_RadiX] The-Spectrum Network CEO ABN: 64 235 749 494 julien@the-spectrum.org www.the-spectrum.org ------oOo---------------oOo------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bastien Koert" <bastien_k@hotmail.com> To: <dpgirago@mdanderson.org>; <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 1:39 AM Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar

javascript Bastien

From: dpgirago@mdanderson.org To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:38:01 -0600 Thanks for the quick response, Bastien. I was thinking that using hidden fields may be another way to go. But

how

would I assign a value to a form variable via clicking on a link?

No, you could try keeping that data in sessions or in hidded form fields

in

the page...note that the latter requires that you do a page submit with

the

onclick of the link / button Bastien

From: dpgirago@mdanderson.org To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:27:33 -0600 Results from full-text searches on a documents database are returning sometimes 300-400 hits, so I'm gonna need to implement a dynamic

navigation

bar. Perhaps this a stupid question, but it seems from a brief googling that navigation bars - dynamic or not - operate by appending variables

and

values to the URL within the <A href="...">link</>, which are then

grabbed

from the $_GET array. Can someone shed some light on whether this

the

only

method used? And, yes, I know that there is a Pear package that does this, but I'm more inclined to implement my own at present. Thanks very much. David

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