[GRLUG] PHP question ... was Client/Server Database app question

[Topher]

I'm not sure I follow, can you make a flowchart of what you would LIKE to 
see happen?

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Chris Lamrock wrote:

>
> Hey guys,
>
> You may recall I am tinkering on reworking a quoting program here at work
> currently written in FOXPRO.  I've got a customer database set up in MySQL
> and have some of the first program working in PHP.
>
> I can now display a customer and click on a NEXT or PREVIOUS button (FORM
> SUBMIT stuff) to display the next or previous user.  Works pretty slick.
>
> Now I have created (with the help of much googling) a search page that
> brings up a selection box that populates with the customer's name from MySQL
> and is mostly working.
>
> What I would LIKE to do is be able to call or run the search.php from my
> customers.php file when I hit the FIND button on that page.  From lots of
> googling and looking at examples I'm not sure if I'm on the right track.
>
> Can I just call find.php from within customer.php easily? Using the <form
> submit buttons? Is this the right way to do it?
>
> I know the info is a little sketchy but hey - that's the level of my php
> knowlege so far!  ;-)
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated as always!
>
> -Chris
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grlug-bounces at grandrapids-lug.org
> [mailto:grlug-bounces at grandrapids-lug.org]On Behalf Of zdennis
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:52 AM
> To: GRLUG general mailing list
> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Client/Server Database app question
>
>
> Chris Lamrock wrote:
>> Right now the program is made up of 4 or 5 live databases.  One with
> quotes,
>> one with customers, notes, signatures and companies - all running in
> Foxpro
>> (since 1995!) :-)
>>
>> So the databases would be created new in Mysql or what have you...
>>
>> Is that what you were asking?
>>
>
> Yeah, I am thinking that I'd like to show you a neat database trick. Here is
> what sample code looks
> like. I am a big fan of simplifying database access:
>
> Say you have a customers table in the databse and it has a relationship to
> the signatures table.
>
> class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base
>   has_many :signatures
> end
>
> class Signature < ActiveRecord::Base
>   has_one :customer
> end
>
>
> That right there handles our relationship between Customer and Signature. Do
> save data to the
> databse you'd write:
>
> customer = Customer.new
> customer.name = "Jon Doe'
> customer.company = 'ABC Corp.'
>
> signature = Signature.new
> customer.signature = signature
>
> customer.save
> signature.save
>
>
> And that's pretty much it. Of course it gets more advanced and you can get
> crazy with complex joins
> and conditions on queries, but it makes accessing the databse 1000% nicer,
> then using Perl::DBI or
> something similar.
>
> This may/may-not fix what you're going for, but I thought I'd throw it out
> as a suggestion. The
> sample code above is from the ActiveRecord portion of Ruby On Rails.
> Although you can use
> ActiveRecord by itself without Rails, I use it alot.
>
> Whatever you choose, good luck!
>
> Zach
>
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