Re: Looking for code for an alphabetic menu in php

2009/5/22 James Crow <james@ultratans.com>: > Bill Mudry wrote: >> >> With the botanical wood tree that I have been working on, the number of >> records for >> genera and for species can get quite large and unwieldy. Presently I have >> over 6,000 >> species records that takes a while to load let alone try to browse >> through. >> >> I need to chop this up into querying by alphabet of the first letter of >> the species >> botanical names. For the species level of organization, I have been >> keeping the >> data in a MySQL file called simply 'species'. I want to have a single >> character of the >> alphabet with each acting as a link for the first character of each >> species name: >>        A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z >> When a user click on one of them, it should be readable (eg. using >> $_GET??) into a common variable for >> them all that can then be used for a select statement. The rest of >> displaying the >> results in columns I already have working fine. >> >> What suggestions do you have for typical code that should work? >> >> Much thanks in advance, >> >> Bill Mudry >> Mississauga, Ontario, Canada > > Bill, > >  I read this as you want the user to be able to select multiple letters to > search on. If so I would recommend making each letter a checkbox. In your > php code you would need to check each element in the $_GET or $_POST array. > The SQL would then need to be: > > SELECT species_name >   FROM species >   WHERE species_name LIKE 'b%' >   OR species_name LIKE 'g%' >   OR species_name LIKE 'r%'; > > Replace species_name with the correct column name. > > Without resorting to some sort of client side scripting I am not sure you > could select multiple letters to search on with simple HTML links. > > Cheers, > James > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > You can also ... SELECT species_name FROM species WHERE species_name LIKE '[bgr]%' Slightly smaller code. -- ----- Richard Quadling Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"