Fw: Dynamic Navigation Bar

From: "Julien Bonastre"
To: "Bastien Koert"
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar


>I would suggest using the GET method..
>
>
> Unless you have some reason you don't want the data passed via GET..
>
>
> In which case I suggest just storing all that in a session..
>
>
> So for example, I wouldn't want to pass a big ugly html-encoded query
> string via the GET URI, as it would look awful
>
> Instead, set a session variable holding that query and any related details
> you are also processing [ie user selected sorting of results
> [ascending/descending] etc, fields to sort by, whatever options you have]
> and just pass a 'pg' value via get
>
> such as ./search.php?pg=2
>
> or something..
>
> As as alternative to the javascript form POSTing method..
>
>
> Its up to you, I'm just providing an alternative to using Javascript which
> as someone else outlined is CLIENT side, hence you are relying on correct
> operation by the browser for it to work..
>
> I don't like relying on the clients browser, I like relying on my code..
>
>
>
> Enjoy
>
> ---oOo--- Allowing users to execute CGI scripts in any directory should
> only be considered if: ... a.. You have no users, and nobody ever visits
> your server. ... Extracted Quote: Security Tips - Apache HTTP
> Server ---oOo--- ------oOo---------------oOo------ Julien Bonastre
> [The_RadiX] The-Spectrum Network CEO ABN: 64 235 749 494
> julien@the-spectrum.org
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bastien Koert"
> To: ;
> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 1:39 AM
> Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar
>
>
>> javascript
>>
>> Bastien
>>
>>
>>>From: dpgirago@mdanderson.org
>>>To: php-db@lists.php.net
>>>Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar
>>>Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:38:01 -0600
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks for the quick response, Bastien.
>>>I was thinking that using hidden fields may be another way to go. But how
>>>would I assign a value to a form variable via clicking on a link?
>>>
>>> >No, you could try keeping that data in sessions or in hidded form
>>> >fields
>>>in
>>> >the page...note that the latter requires that you do a page submit with
>>>the
>>> >onclick of the link / button
>>> >
>>> >Bastien
>>>
>>>
>>> >>From: dpgirago@mdanderson.org
>>> >>To: php-db@lists.php.net
>>> >>Subject: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar
>>> >>Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:27:33 -0600
>>> >>
>>> >>Results from full-text searches on a documents database are returning
>>> >>sometimes 300-400 hits, so I'm gonna need to implement a dynamic
>>>navigation
>>> >>bar. Perhaps this a stupid question, but it seems from a brief
>>> >>googling
>>> >>that navigation bars - dynamic or not - operate by appending
>>> >>variables
>>>and
>>> >>values to the URL within the link, which are then
>>>grabbed
>>> >>from the $_GET array. Can someone shed some light on whether this the
>>>only
>>> >>method used?
>>> >>
>>> >> And, yes, I know that there is a Pear package that does this, but
>>> >> I'm
>>> >>more
>>> >>inclined to implement my own at present.
>>> >>
>>> >>Thanks very much.
>>> >>
>>> >>David
>>>
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Thanks for weighing in on the question, Julien. It's an intranet
application, and I have some influence with the users' browser settings, so
I used Javascript. I have to admit though that I was unaware you could pass
a function from an anchor href tag
(, for those
similarly in the dark). Dynamically creating the links with their
associated offset for use with MySQL's "limit" syntax works very well. I'm
curious if anybody knows how long Javascript has supported this syntax? I
found example scripts using it beginning in chapter 15 of Danny Goodman's
"JavaScript Bible" (5th Edition) 2004, so I'm guessing it's part of the
Document Object Model specification, but I didn't explore it's origins.

Thanks Bastien and Julien.

David

> From: "Julien Bonastre"
> To: "Bastien Koert"
> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 11:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar


>I would suggest using the GET method..
>
>
> Unless you have some reason you don't want the data passed via GET..
>
>
> In which case I suggest just storing all that in a session..
>
>
> So for example, I wouldn't want to pass a big ugly html-encoded query
> string via the GET URI, as it would look awful
>
> Instead, set a session variable holding that query and any related
details
> you are also processing [ie user selected sorting of results
> [ascending/descending] etc, fields to sort by, whatever options you have]

> and just pass a 'pg' value via get
>
> such as ./search.php?pg=2
>
> or something..
>
> As as alternative to the javascript form POSTing method..
>
>
> Its up to you, I'm just providing an alternative to using Javascript
which
> as someone else outlined is CLIENT side, hence you are relying on correct

> operation by the browser for it to work..
>
> I don't like relying on the clients browser, I like relying on my code..
>
>
>
> Enjoy
>
> ---oOo--- Allowing users to execute CGI scripts in any directory should
> only be considered if: ... a.. You have no users, and nobody ever visits
> your server. ... Extracted Quote: Security Tips - Apache HTTP
> Server ---oOo--- ------oOo---------------oOo------ Julien Bonastre
> [The_RadiX] The-Spectrum Network CEO ABN: 64 235 749 494
> julien@the-spectrum.org
> www.the-spectrum.org ------oOo---------------oOo------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bastien Koert"
> To: ;
> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 1:39 AM
> Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar
>
>
>> javascript
>>
>> Bastien
>>
>>
>>>From: dpgirago@mdanderson.org
>>>To: php-db@lists.php.net
>>>Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar
>>>Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:38:01 -0600
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks for the quick response, Bastien.
>>>I was thinking that using hidden fields may be another way to go. But
how
>>>would I assign a value to a form variable via clicking on a link?
>>>
>>> >No, you could try keeping that data in sessions or in hidded form
>>> >fields
>>>in
>>> >the page...note that the latter requires that you do a page submit
with
>>>the
>>> >onclick of the link / button
>>> >
>>> >Bastien
>>>
>>>
>>> >>From: dpgirago@mdanderson.org
>>> >>To: php-db@lists.php.net
>>> >>Subject: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar
>>> >>Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:27:33 -0600
>>> >>
>>> >>Results from full-text searches on a documents database are returning
>>> >>sometimes 300-400 hits, so I'm gonna need to implement a dynamic
>>>navigation
>>> >>bar. Perhaps this a stupid question, but it seems from a brief
>>> >>googling
>>> >>that navigation bars - dynamic or not - operate by appending
>>> >>variables
>>>and
>>> >>values to the URL within the link, which are then
>>>grabbed
>>> >>from the $_GET array. Can someone shed some light on whether this
the
>>>only
>>> >>method used?
>>> >>
>>> >> And, yes, I know that there is a Pear package that does this, but
>>> >> I'm
>>> >>more
>>> >>inclined to implement my own at present.
>>> >>
>>> >>Thanks very much.
>>> >>
>>> >>David
>>>
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yes its definitely quite an interesting piece....


I can't comment on its origins either, but I'm sure even before it was
placed into practice you could always use the event handling routines of the
HTML anchor element

which of course would be:
ONCLICK="myFunction(parameters,...); return true;"
and/or the many others: ONMOUSEDOWN, ONMOUSEUP, ONKEYPRESS, etc etc
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/dtd.html#events


Anyway, enjoy ;-)


---oOo--- Allowing users to execute CGI scripts in any directory should only
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server. ... Extracted Quote: Security Tips - Apache HTTP
Server ---oOo--- ------oOo---------------oOo------ Julien Bonastre
[The_RadiX] The-Spectrum Network CEO ABN: 64 235 749 494
julien@the-spectrum.org
www.the-spectrum.org ------oOo---------------oOo------
----- Original Message -----
From:
To: ;
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar


>
> Thanks for weighing in on the question, Julien. It's an intranet
> application, and I have some influence with the users' browser settings,
> so
> I used Javascript. I have to admit though that I was unaware you could
> pass
> a function from an anchor href tag
> (, for those
> similarly in the dark). Dynamically creating the links with their
> associated offset for use with MySQL's "limit" syntax works very well. I'm
> curious if anybody knows how long Javascript has supported this syntax? I
> found example scripts using it beginning in chapter 15 of Danny Goodman's
> "JavaScript Bible" (5th Edition) 2004, so I'm guessing it's part of the
> Document Object Model specification, but I didn't explore it's origins.
>
> Thanks Bastien and Julien.
>
> David
>
>> From: "Julien Bonastre"
>> To: "Bastien Koert"
>> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 11:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar
>
>
>>I would suggest using the GET method..
>>
>>
>> Unless you have some reason you don't want the data passed via GET..
>>
>>
>> In which case I suggest just storing all that in a session..
>>
>>
>> So for example, I wouldn't want to pass a big ugly html-encoded query
>> string via the GET URI, as it would look awful
>>
>> Instead, set a session variable holding that query and any related
> details
>> you are also processing [ie user selected sorting of results
>> [ascending/descending] etc, fields to sort by, whatever options you have]
>
>> and just pass a 'pg' value via get
>>
>> such as ./search.php?pg=2
>>
>> or something..
>>
>> As as alternative to the javascript form POSTing method..
>>
>>
>> Its up to you, I'm just providing an alternative to using Javascript
> which
>> as someone else outlined is CLIENT side, hence you are relying on correct
>
>> operation by the browser for it to work..
>>
>> I don't like relying on the clients browser, I like relying on my code..
>>
>>
>>
>> Enjoy
>>
>> ---oOo--- Allowing users to execute CGI scripts in any directory should
>> only be considered if: ... a.. You have no users, and nobody ever visits
>> your server. ... Extracted Quote: Security Tips - Apache HTTP
>> Server ---oOo--- ------oOo---------------oOo------ Julien Bonastre
>> [The_RadiX] The-Spectrum Network CEO ABN: 64 235 749 494
>> julien@the-spectrum.org
>> www.the-spectrum.org ------oOo---------------oOo------
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bastien Koert"
>> To: ;
>> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 1:39 AM
>> Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar
>>
>>
>>> javascript
>>>
>>> Bastien
>>>
>>>
>>>>From: dpgirago@mdanderson.org
>>>>To: php-db@lists.php.net
>>>>Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar
>>>>Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:38:01 -0600
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for the quick response, Bastien.
>>>>I was thinking that using hidden fields may be another way to go. But
> how
>>>>would I assign a value to a form variable via clicking on a link?
>>>>
>>>> >No, you could try keeping that data in sessions or in hidded form
>>>> >fields
>>>>in
>>>> >the page...note that the latter requires that you do a page submit
> with
>>>>the
>>>> >onclick of the link / button
>>>> >
>>>> >Bastien
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> >>From: dpgirago@mdanderson.org
>>>> >>To: php-db@lists.php.net
>>>> >>Subject: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Navigation Bar
>>>> >>Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:27:33 -0600
>>>> >>
>>>> >>Results from full-text searches on a documents database are returning
>>>> >>sometimes 300-400 hits, so I'm gonna need to implement a dynamic
>>>>navigation
>>>> >>bar. Perhaps this a stupid question, but it seems from a brief
>>>> >>googling
>>>> >>that navigation bars - dynamic or not - operate by appending
>>>> >>variables
>>>>and
>>>> >>values to the URL within the link, which are then
>>>>grabbed
>>>> >>from the $_GET array. Can someone shed some light on whether this
> the
>>>>only
>>>> >>method used?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> And, yes, I know that there is a Pear package that does this, but
>>>> >> I'm
>>>> >>more
>>>> >>inclined to implement my own at present.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>Thanks very much.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>David
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
>>>>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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