"Robert Cummings" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1132600810.27185.32.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 13:41, Dan Baker wrote: >> I'm curious ... how do you generally handle forms and urls? What if the >> programmer wants to add a link, something like: >> <a href="page.php?op=View&id=1234">View my info</a> >> >> How is the data (op=View&id=1234) separated from the formatting? > > There are two ways for retrieving data. The first you have seen is the > tag form, but obviously that's a problem when the data goes into a tag > :) For this there is the embed form (a simple example follows but data > can be retrieved from modules/components in the same way): > > <a href="page.php?op=View&id={jinn:echo value={jinn:getValue name=_GET, > path=id}}"> It appears that the data "op=View" is embedded in the html data. This seems strange, because the PHP programmer is the one who needs to set this value, not the page designer. Also, the jinn:getValue seems a lot like programming -- The "id" value must come from a database, based on who is currently logged in. I assume it can be done, but seems like these queries would get rather complex, as well as redundant. Seems like you are changing from programming in PHP to programming in this new jinn language. I am interested in how this works, but am skeptical. DanB -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
