| Re: Query or Array functions [message #176961 is a reply to message #176956] |
Fri, 10 February 2012 10:44   |
Captain Paralytic
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On Feb 10, 1:18 am, Scott Johnson <nooneh...@chalupasworld.com> wrote:
> OK I will try to ask this and make sense out of this also.
>
> First off I am doing this on a back-end admin page.
> I have a DB with lets say 5000 records and a dozen or more fields.
>
> On the page which will display these records I am planning on using
> pagination to display so many records at once. So far so good.
>
> What i would like to do is provide a row above the table of records
> where the user can enter text to filter the display on each column.
>
> I plan to use AJAX and filter as the user types which in itself is not a
> problem.
>
> The problem I see is the numerous DB queries and I don't see querying
> the DB each time the user types a letter as a practical approach. (I
> could be wrong).
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> What I was thinking of doing is loading the full record set into an
> array and then filter out the array of the needed data as the user types.
>
> I have not done any intense array manipulations like this before and am
> wondering if this seems like a practical approach.
>
> I would like to ask for any advice or suggestions on this. I may even
> have my head in the wrong area and not see the forest thru the trees.
>
> Thanks
> Scotty
If you're going to g the ajax route, I can recommend
http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/. You will find an example there
that does almost exactly what you are talking about.
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