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Building up a query string for sorting purposes dynamically from select elements
Hi,
Having used the jquery tablesorter plugin for pagination and sorting purposes on a site, the client wants to use PHP now. Pagination is not a problem at all - but I need an efficient way to build the query string for sort purposes when I want to be able to sort the list based on (eg) price, name. I need to be able to potentially add extra select elements (or possibily even check boxes at some stage) so the code needs to be able to handle that.
What I need to avoid is repeated occurences of the parameters in the query string eg
?sort=true&priceOrder=1&na
which happens if you use something like window.location.href in the jquery - i would like the string to be converted to in this instance
?sort=true&nameOrder=0&pri
Any help much appreciated!
Cheers,
Daisy
Having used the jquery tablesorter plugin for pagination and sorting purposes on a site, the client wants to use PHP now. Pagination is not a problem at all - but I need an efficient way to build the query string for sort purposes when I want to be able to sort the list based on (eg) price, name. I need to be able to potentially add extra select elements (or possibily even check boxes at some stage) so the code needs to be able to handle that.
What I need to avoid is repeated occurences of the parameters in the query string eg
?sort=true&priceOrder=1&na
which happens if you use something like window.location.href in the jquery - i would like the string to be converted to in this instance
?sort=true&nameOrder=0&pri
Any help much appreciated!
Cheers,
Daisy
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Many thanks for getting back to me - really appreciate it. I will get back to you when I've had a chance to look at your comments. Zappafan - the sorting is done by PHP but I need to pass the values to the query string each time I change a select variable - and this needs to be done using JS. I can build the query string - as described in my initial message but I was just trying to remove repeated occurences of parameters (eg nameOrder) as you build the url up. I know it doesnt actually matter when you are using $_GET, but it's just a case of keeping the urls short and tidy.
Cheers,
Daisy