you might be able to put the id of the next/prev card as the value of the <option> and then use javascript to generate the url.
the only reliance then would be that the browser as JS enabled, as the above should be possible with the most basic of JS HTH Martin > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Blanpied [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 3 December 2003 2:05 PM > To: php-general > Subject: [PHP] Conditional anchor href value > > > I'm working on a page which displays details for a given > record, and allows > the user to flip back and forth through a large set of > records, much like a > set of index cards. "Previous" and "Next" buttons reload the > "card" with the > new record id. > > It is important that the URLs for the "cards" be very simple > and static > (easily bookmarked), along the lines of: "card.php?id=123". > > The complexity comes because there are a number of ways in > which one would > want to flip back and forth: by date, by creator, etc. We > have a select menu > on the card which provides these options. > > If the prev/next buttons and select menu are part of a form, > one can check > the menu upon the reload of the page and find the correct new > id, but the > page in this case will not have a useful, clean URL. Most > likely it will > reference the referring card. We donšt want that. > > What we need is a way of saying "if the menu says date, use > this id", etc. > > It seemed to me that we might be looking at problem requiring > a client-side > solution, but my javascript experiments have been > frustrating, and seem to > be veering into browser-conditional waters - one of the great > arguments for > server-side scripting. > > Still the js approach has been closest to what we need: the > php script puts > all the possible links from that card into the page, and then the js > function uses the correct one. > > Does anyone have any advice? > > Thanks > > -eric > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > __________ Information from NOD32 1.568 (20031202) __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 for Exchange e-mail monitor. > http://www.nod32.com > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
