Re: could i get a clue?

Robert V. Zwink wrote: > This particular application is designed to assist someone working on data > entry, and is currently in production. She inputs 100's of mail-in reply > cards into a database using a php webpage. The first field of the form is > for the email address listed on the reply card. If the email address is > already in the database, the person doing data entry will see an image of a > red light, if the email address is not in the database the person doing data > entry will see an image of a green light. Kind of weird, true, but exactly > what she wanted. Why should the person doing data entry have to type in > email address, mailing address, first name, last name, etc. just to get an > error saying duplicate entry found? This way she can choose to replace the > record or just skip it depending on the results (red or green). The > changing image increases her productivty by decreasing time spent inputing > duplicate data. > > And also is one possible answer to the question, "How do I access php from > JavaScript". > > I fail to see how this is a "horrible construction". Solves a problem with > minimal input from user, quickly, and completely. How is this horrible? > Its a functional tool, that is used ever day with 0 complaints. > > Horrible? > Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it > means." Michael Geier wrote: > No it's not. > First one is changing the address of the current window. > Second one is a popup window leaving the first one intact. > > Just semantics. A question for the both a you: Did either one of you actually _READ_ my message completely? No. Michael... I said "same _KIND_OF_ construction". I didn't say it's exactly the same. Kind of you to tell me thing I already know, but it doesn't change anything. It still is the same _kind_of_ construction. Like I wrote before; you redirect someone to a different page. And whether you do that in the same window or in a window that pops up makes no change to that. The user still goes to a different page for the result of the referenced PHP-script. And Robert... Seems like a pretty cool application you got there and for what you're doing there, the images _are_ a good solution. You want the 'light' to switch from green to red depending on a db-query in a different PHP-script. And it does, without the user having to leave the page. Smart! But like a wrote before; if you're not using any images on your page, it's not a nice solution. Then one should put images on a page where he/she doesn't want any images. And, like I wrote, then you get the Sitestat/Nedstat kind of constructions where you have to put a transparent image from 1x1 pixel on the page. That's not the way to do it. And why wouldn't I know what horrible means? Because I keep using that word? Wow... then you must have absolutely no clue of what words like 'is' and 'the' mean. Yes, I know... this doesn't make sense... Neither does your remark (...) -- * R&zE: -- »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» -- Renze Munnik -- DataLink BV -- -- E: renze@datalink.nl -- W: +31 23 5326162 -- F: +31 23 5322144 -- M: +31 6 21811143 -- H: +31 23 5516190 -- -- Stationsplein 82 -- 2011 LM HAARLEM -- -- http://www.datalink.nl -- ««««««««««««««««««««««««