RE: [PHP] Keeping POST values when paging

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 16:18 +0100, Mayer, Jonathan wrote: > Yup, some good work there Tedd! > > In the end I decided the simplest way of coding the functionality was to do > something similar to what Eric said, and have some extra submit buttons in > the form, called Next, Previous and Jump. When clicked, they each submitted > the form again with a different flag set. Along with a session variable > storing the "current" page, I was able to code a reasonably neat solution > deciding which results to show without having to rewrite any sections of my > code. Because these submit buttons are tied to a form at the top of the > page, this has limited me to only having the navigational buttons at the top > of the results table rather than at the bottom too, but that is perfectly > fine in my situation. Just a comment... the submit button/session technique sucks with respect to passing along links to people. I would suggest scrapping that approach and going with a GET approach (where the navigational information is present in the URL). I know my clients almost always want to be able to paste a URL into an email and have the recipient go directly to whatever they are viewing. Maybe that's not an issue for you though... yet ;) Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP