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Rick Sinclair
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Location: Seattle, WA

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:50 am Post subject: SmartyPaginate: Using a checkbox to compare results

I'm trying to figure this out and I've been picking up pieces of information in order to try and put the puzzle together and I would really appreciate some help. Thanks in advance:

I can get 20-30 results in smartyPaginate that I'd like to give my user a checkbox (named "compare") within each result so that they can then hit a button and reduce those results down to the ones they've checked. Here's what I think I know so far:

In the tpl:

Code:

{foreach item="curr_section" from=$data}

...I have "curr_section" items displaying data from each row of the $data array, built on a mySQL query, by a foreach function...

I've added a checkbox, like such:
<input type="checkbox" name="compareResults" /> that gets placed inside each foreach iteration.

{/foreach}

And inside of a tabbed panel I have a button, like:

<form method=get action="compare_tires.php">
<description stuff>
<input type="button" value=" Compare ">
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="compareResults">
</form>

Will the approach be to write the keyed $data.tirenum into the compareSearch array for each curr_section where the checkbox "compareSearch == 1" ??? Then, search the database again looking for matches of 'tirenum' in the compareSearch array and rebuild another $data array, then rerun the previous pagination foreach iteration for the new results...??? If so, what would that php look like that stores the 'tirenum' based off the "checkbox == 1" for each curr_section??? I'm not sure it's feasible to assign a checkbox value to a curr_section within smartyPaginate(?). Am I missing a step (or two) here?

Or,

Do I run the button "compare" back over the same page and use if statements to show/hide the curr_section based on whether the curr_section's compareSearch checkbox has been checked? Again, I'm not sure how that would look either. (I guess it's the checkbox's association with each foreach iteration that's drilling a hole in my head.) Confused

I'm not really wanting to take the items marked "compare" and load them into a new page. I'm really just wanting to reduce the results from 20-30 down to say, 3 or 4. The user can click on each item to see more details if they choose.

Ugh, the growing pains of knowledge: A little help for the uneducated, please!

Rick
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