Re: Size of Quickform Select Element Array
| From: | Justin Patrin | Date: | Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:41:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Size of Quickform Select Element Array | ||
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On 4/18/06, Robert Gehrig <robert.gehrig@gdbarri.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was wondering what the max size is of the options array in Quickform Select Element is.
>
> I am doing a search form and I want to use the result of a query to generate the select
> element. using the loadQuery function.
>
> Small numbers of returns from the query (approx 100 or so) seem to work, but one result is an
> array of 2100, this fails.
>
Fails how? My guess is that either PHP runs out of memory or that your
browser crashes.
> Can someone suggest a better way to look up the items I need to select from to generate the
> search.
>
Use the livesearch element and return a sub-set (first 100) of the
elements which changes as the user types in a field.
You could also just use a paged display instead of one long list.
--
Justin Patrin