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Passing hundreds of thousands of records to a single web-page doesn't sound like a good idea simply because it will take too much time to transfer the information from your server to the client and because the user will definitely not go through that kind of amount of data.<br />
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Traditionally in these situations the search outputs an error message saying something like &quot;More than X records found, please refine the query&quot; and then allow/force the user to do so.<br />
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Passing hundreds of thousands of records to a single web-page doesn't sound like a good idea simply because it will take too much time to transfer the information from your server to the client and because the user will definitely not go through that kind of amount of data.

Traditionally in these situations the search outputs an error message saying something like "More than X records found, please refine the query" and then allow/force the user to do so.



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My situation looks like this , i have a search screen where users enter search criteria, submit it<br />
to the database and get the result. It could be even hundred thousand records. <br />
User can select some or all of the records and go to next screen<br />
Now on the next screen I want to show the details for each record one at a time, with &nbsp;controls allowing to go to the next record. What is the best method to pass selected records on the previous screen ?. Save them to a file ?. 
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My situation looks like this , i have a search screen where users enter search criteria, submit it
to the database and get the result. It could be even hundred thousand records. 
User can select some or all of the records and go to next screen
Now on the next screen I want to show the details for each record one at a time, with  controls allowing to go to the next record. What is the best method to pass selected records on the previous screen ?. Save them to a file ?. 

PHP - passing massive amount of data

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