Re: PHP - Web/list Question...

On 9 Nov 2008, at 07:16, Robert Cummings wrote:

On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 20:26 -0800, bruce wrote:

I've got a question/issue that I want to bounce off the list. I have a list that extends over multiple pages. there might be 200 items, and i don't want to have the items listed on the same page as it would be too long. i can break the list up, so i can have it be displayed over multiple pages. however, i want the user to select different items from the list. given that the selected items might be over different pages, what's the best way of keeping a running track of the items that have been selected?? I could have each page be a form, and do a post/get where i then keep track of the selected items from page to page, but that would appear to get ugly. i'm looking for pointers to other sites/code that might have already implemented this kind of scenario. thoughts/pointers would be appreciated...

Accumulate them in the session. When done, and before final action you could let them view a summary of selected items and allow deletion of any entries they don't want.

Unless they're likely to select hundreds of items I'd either go with a persisted GET var or a cookie. No need to drag server-side storage into this. -Stut -- http://stut.net/