Using Dreamweaver CS4 and PHP/MySQL, I have set up a login page which directs users to a main page where they can see items assigned to them. These items are dynamically read from the database and are in a table row which repeats according to the number of items.
I would like a button next to each row which, when clicked, displays more information about the item in that row. How do I achieve this? I have a Session Variable set up already but this does not help in this case. I could not figure out how to implement a Form variable...
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Hi jason1178,
That seems like what I want to do but unfortunately I am not entirely fluent in PHP. I have been mostly using Dreamweaver's built in functions up till now. Is there an easy way to achieve the same results using Dreamweaver's (CS4) built in tools?
I will try and work with the code some more though and let you know how I get on.
Thank you.
>> unfortunately I am not entirely fluent in PHP
Get fluent. There is only so much you can do in DW via the wizards. Some basic hand-coding skills will be required as you move forward.
>> Is there an easy way to achieve the same results using Dreamweaver's (CS4) built in tools?
Yes and no.
All of the above is what's called a Master-Detail application. Your repeating region contains the "master" data and the button or link filters the recordset to a single "detail" record on the next page. There isn't a single command you can issue that will build all of this for you, but it's not that hard to do with the tools at hand.
1) Create your Master recordset (you have this)
2) Create your repeat region (you have this)
3) Create the text in the detail region that will be the link
4) Select the text and add the Detail page as the link in the Properties panel (somepage.php)
5) Switch to Code View and look for the <a href="somepage.php">Some Text</a> you just created
6) Edit the link like so:
<a href="somepage.php?itemID=
7) From the Bindings panel, drag and drop the unique ID field into the code above. Aim for the right of the = sign. If successful, the result looks like this:
<a href="somepage.php?itemID=
8) Open somepage.php and make a new recordset that filters on URL Parameter itemID = the same column from above.
Done.
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If you really must have an extension do this work for you and you are only using one table, you can try WebAssist's DataAssist product. It will completely automate creation of Master-Detail pages and also allow you to create search, update, and delete pages at the same moment. But that may be overkill for your needs and it is not free.
Hi jason1178,
Thanks for the detailed instructions. I have been trying out this solution and making some progress. When I followed your instructions, the new page loads fine but does not display any of the dynamic text based on the URL Parameter recordset I have set up.
I can see the that the correct itemID is passed through the URL because it has ...somepage.php?itemID=Sug
Would it be more appropriate to ask this as a related question? Let me know the correct etiquette and I will do so.
Thanks.
Line 241:
if (isset($_GET['itemID=anima
That's not right. When you set up a filtered recordset you don't enter the comparison in the text box, just the name of the URL Parameter
Code should be:
if (isset($_GET['itemID']))
That should fix it.
FYI, the code above is a mess. Somehow you've added six include files and the GetSQLValueString() function is repeating and there appear to be two copies of Recordset1. You may want to spend some time cleaning that up.
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by: jason1178Posted on 2009-10-27 at 18:51:39ID: 25679386
Hi alexking,
>> I could not figure out how to implement a Form variable...
A Form Variable is any field in a form that is posted to PHP. So:
<form method="post" action="somepage.php">
<input type="hidden" name="itemlookup" value="<?php echo rs_YourRecordSet['columnID
<input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Submit" />
</form>
would create a form in the repeating region that sets a hidden field with the key for the item. When the user clicks the submit button, the Form Variable "itemlookup" is available to filter the recordset on somepage.php.
In pure PHP terms, Form Variables are simply values in the $_POST array:
$_POST['itemlookup']
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>> Hyperlink in a Repeater in Dreamweaver CS4 using PHP
So if you want to do this in a hyperlink instead of a form, you are now using the URL Variables according to Dreamweaver:
<a href="somepage.php?itemID=
The above would populate the $_GET array.