Hi Bill,
I don't know if I got you right but I hope this will help:
[CODE]
<?php
$baseLink = "index.php?letter="; // Assuming your file name is
"index.php"; set up the base link for all pages
//alphabetical links
for($a=65;$a<(65+26);$a++){
print "<a href=\"".$baseLink.chr($a)."\">".chr($a)."</a>\n";
}
if (isset($_GET["letter"]) && $_GET["letter"] != ""){
$letter = $_GET["letter"];
$sql = "SELECT * FROM species WHERE [SPECIES_NAME] LIKE
'".$letter."%'"; // Replace [SPECIES_NAME] with your column name
$res = mysql_query($sql);
if ($res){
while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($res)){
// retrieve your row info
}
} else {
print "Failed retrieving data set, error was: ".mysql_error();
}
}
?>
[/CODE]
Enjoy,
Sascha
Bill Mudry schrieb:
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
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