Re: Creative solution with XML,PHP,MYSQL

There is an example of this in Mozilla. If you go to the Debug->Viewer Demos menu and select #14 or #15 there are some nice examples there. If you don't have Mozilla, use Netscape 6 to go to: http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/xml/debugdemos/books/books.xml and http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/xml/debugdemos/tocdemo/rights.xml Tim Frank wrote: > Siim, > > You can do this with a combination of XML and XSL. I remember a demo > from Microsoft's XML area that did exactly what you ask: Click a column > and have it sort. I believe it was an example having to do with Stock > listings. Basically XSL lets you use come programming/looping constructs > when displaying data from an XML file. The downside is that it currently > only works with IE 5 and greater. It might not be the best overall > solution, but if you are looking at the issue from a "can it be done" > point of view, then yes, it can actually be done. It just might not be > usable. > > Tim Frank > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > On 17/02/01, 9:23:00 AM, siim_e@pshg.edu.ee (Siim Einfeldt aka Itpunk) > wrote regarding [PHP] Creative solution with XML,PHP,MYSQL: > > > Hi everybody, > > > I want to implement ordering something on a website without refreshing > the > > page. Lets say i have four columns in the html table - name,age,skill and > > phone. All these are links - under these are the information, eg: > > Name Age Skill Phone > > Siim 23 php 051... > > Tony 18 html 132... > > > Now, when i click on the name, it should order the listings by name, if I > > click on the age, I get the listing ordered by age and etc,etc. Generally > > it is easy to do it, but how to do it without refreshing the page every > > time I want to order by something else? > > > It should be possible with XML; I get the data from mysql database with > > php, I write it into an array and ... now how could I make it function > the > > way I just described? Could someone point me some already written code or > > explain me in detail how to do it? > > > Thank you, > > Siim Einfeldt > > > PS: Sorry about sending this message to so many lists, but I haven`t seen > > this kind of code anywhere, but at the same time I know it is possible. > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net