PS, also, I would need to know and handle the beginning and end of that array, ie, if there isn't a next or previous, I wouldn't want to display a next or forward button, or maybe disable it...
Thanks On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 14:06, Petre Agenbag wrote: > Hi > I need to do the following, and have a slight idea of how to do it, but > I'm not sure... > > I want to do a "select id from table where something = "whatever" ", > then I will display all the "hits" from that query as links to a > "display" page, sending along the id's of the row. > > On that next page, I will use that id to retrieve the relevant data to > display for that specific record, but, I want to have a previous|next > function, that will display the relevant data of the previous or next > record as was displayed on the original page that showed the list of > "hits". So I *think* I should create an array containing all the id's of > that query, and send it along with the clickthrough to the "display" > page and then from there use the array functions "next" and "prev" to > get the id's directly adjacent to the one I currently have, but I'm not > sure if this is the best way to do it, for one, I don't know how to put > those id's into an array from the original query, and two, don't know > how to tell it to "get prev of current id from array" or "get next of > current id from array". And I think it might be a bit of an unnecessary > overhead to send that entire array via GET to the display page if you > are only ever going to use 2 values from it, so It would make much more > sense to me to pass the current id, the next id and the previous id for > each "hit" along to the "display" page. > > Any ideas on how I could do that? > > Thanks > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
