-----Original Message----- From: Robert Cummings [mailto:robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 08 July 2008 17:01 To: Eric Butera Cc: Mayer, Jonathan; Bastien Koert; Philip Thompson; PHP-General List Subject: Re: Keeping POST values when paging On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 11:57 -0400, Eric Butera wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Just a comment... the submit button/session technique sucks with respect > > to passing along links to people. I would suggest scrapping that > > approach and going with a GET approach (where the navigational > > information is present in the URL). I know my clients almost always want > > to be able to paste a URL into an email and have the recipient go > > directly to whatever they are viewing. Maybe that's not an issue for you > > though... yet ;) > > That isn't practical if your form has 50 fields though. >I haven't been following the thread very closely... does he have 50 >fields? > >Cheers, >Rob. I do have a large form - not quite 50 fields but it would create very long URLs! I take your point, however. In this situation the GET method isn't needed, as there will be a very limited number of users who will generally use the system independantly of each other, but I understand your reasoning. So, I've been lucky this time, but it's something I need to consider more carefully in the design stage of future projects. PHP programming is a small part of my job, with only "hobby" experience to work with, so it's only now that I'm moving on to slightly larger projects I'm beginning to see the real benefits in the design stage. With this project, I carefully worked out all the database design before coding, but didn't do enough on the use-case side of things, such as considering the need for paging to ensure system speed during a database query with lots of results. So I get to the situation where I have 1,000 lines of reasonably decent code, and I'm trying to hack in a solution for, say, paging, when it could have been easily handled if it was considered more carefully earlier. Live and learn I guess! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
