damn hotmail blows
But if the database supports it, what about using a view that is made up of the
two tables?
Could that be a possibility?
Bastien
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php-general@lists.php.net Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:39:03 -0400 Subject:
[PHP] Multi-table pager sorted by date I'm doing a project where the database
was designed before me and they don't have a budget for a database re-design.
There are two entity tables which /should/ have been the same model with some
meta-fields keyed off a type field, but it's not. It's two tables, which
should be displayed intermixed, paged, and sorted by date. The solution I
thought up didn't do the trick. I: - made two pagers, one for each table -
got the current page's set - intermixed them by making an array of references,
keyed off the datetime string, refering to items in both result sets -
krsort()ed the intermixed array The result is probably obvious, but I'll
explain it anyway... there is nowhere near an equal density in
entries-per-date between the two tables, and so, each page shows results from
both tables, but the dates for the two models on the same page are very
different; on page 1, i'll get items from tableA with dates ranging
10/5/2007-10/9/2007 and tableB with dates ranging from 10/13/2007 12:00:00 to
10/13/2007 at 15:00:00. So I'm thinking I need to find a way to align the
results, and it needs to happen somehow in the pagers themselves (this being
symfony, the pager grabs the query criteria object and sets limit and offset
for you.) I am already generating pager links based on the resultset with the
most pages; so artificially generating page links won't be a far step. The
only solution I've thought up, I don't want to do, which is to break the query
into dates e.g. if the date range is 2007-10-01 to 2007-10-31, I do not want a
separate pager link for each date which then subpages the results or shows all
results for that date; the date range might span years and there might be
hundreds of entries for a date. I need a single pager which aligns the two
tables' entries' dates in each page of results throughout the span. I am
very open to a ready-made class that can do this, especially if it's based on
Propel, or if it can take raw sql queries. Thoughts? Nathan -- PHP
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