Hi all, Just a quick question about a way to approach a situation I'm stuck in with the intention of keeping best practices in mind.
Alright, I have a page in which a user can search for a list of people, they can either search by name, industry, city, country or job title (eg: programmer, plumber) each option is determined by a radio button nothing fancy and a texfield to enter the value to search for (EG: name = bob) My question is this: Firstly Im trying to keep my code neat and preferably as little of it as possible in the actual page by using javascript to call functions in another file. Should I: - just have the page post to itself (the results are also displayed on the same page) therefore having the code that does the validation of which option was selected and ensure that a valid entry was entered (eg name must not be blank or have an integer value for example) and then calling the function to query the database (which is in another file) - or should i just have the submit button for the search call a javascript function immediately and based on whats entered then call the specific function to query the DB. Therefore hardly any php code is in the actual page. Relating to this is whether I can call a function in the query file (class) to get the resultset, and how would that resultset be sent to the origional search page. - use another approach which i might not be aware of?? By using best practices, in future it will be easier to modify this code and also easier to debug it. It just seems cleaner when the php code is seperated from the actual search page (HTML), unfortunately Im not using smarty... any comments and help will be appreciated! thanx in advance. Angelo -------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer This e-mail transmission contains confidential information, which is the property of the sender. The information in this e-mail or attachments thereto is intended for the attention and use only of the addressee. Should you have received this e-mail in error, please delete and destroy it and any attachments thereto immediately. Under no circumstances will the Cape Technikon or the sender of this e-mail be liable to any party for any direct, indirect, special or other consequential damages for any use of this e-mail. For the detailed e-mail disclaimer please refer to http://www.ctech.ac.za/polic or call +27 (0)21 460 3911 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
