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Posted by Jon on 05/03/06 00:55
"Andy Jeffries" <news@andyjeffries.co.uk> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.05.02.21.42.07.505570@andyjeffries.co.uk...
> On Tue, 02 May 2006 13:47:08 -0700, Regenuluz wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure AJAX would be the best choice here. And the only one I
>> can
>> think of, where you don't have to reload the entire page.
>
> You could also use a regular Javascript data structure within <script>
> tags dynamically printed/echoed using PHP, then filter the data structure
> using Javascript to only display the relevant items.
>
> However, it could make page weight enormous, so it may not be possible
> with your dataset (plus you may not like the idea of your dataset being
> easily viewable, although anyone can read the AJAX source and pull it
> using a script if they're interested so neither way is secure).
>
> I do, however, agree with Regenluz that AJAX would be the best solution,
> but in case writing custom AJAX code is out of your realm of abilities,
> there is the way I suggest above.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Andy
>
>
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> Andy Jeffries MBCS CITP ZCE | gPHPEdit Lead Developer
> http://www.gphpedit.org | PHP editor for Gnome 2
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>
Yeah, that's definitely an option I considered - Bringing in all of the
subcategories and running a case on the onchange event using the value
they've passed in. But like you said, it makes the page pretty heavy having
to bring in this data - plus, I need this same process to be run on a few
different pages - and many times users aren't going to be updating the
categories, so I just need them to stay the same but still be available.
Looks like my options are down to: AJAX, making the category options a
separate form/choice, or weighting my page down.
AJAX might be out of my realm unfortunately - We do have some books, and I'm
confident in my code, but I've never written any real-world stuff and I have
until June 1 to have this project completed. Thanks for the info guys. If
anyone else has suggestions, I'm always open :)
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