Re: range vs greater than/less than

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2003

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texte = This sounds like a job for the Group Field Workaround! Defining a groupfield that contains a field you're already searching lets you search that field again...[search db=...&group1field=ABC&leABCdata=[max]&geGROUP1data=[min]...]It's kinda ugly and tricker to write in a generic fashion, but it works.- brianOn Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 01:46 PM, Andrew Simpson wrote:> This is just a comment really on the way webcat does something that i > don't> like.>> I have just finished writing a search page that lets you select from > drop> down lists to refine your search. The company sells projectors. The > search> criteria are>> min / max price> min / max resolution> min / max weight> min / max lumens (brightness)>> with a drop down for both min and max values for each item.>> You select your mins and maxiums and hopefully you get a set of > products> returned that are within the range.>> So I wrote some nice generic code that should handle all > eventuallities:>> [formvariables name=min&exact=false]> [showif [value]!#]> [text]search_string=[search_string]ge[getchars> start=5][name][/getchars]data=[value]&[getchars> start=5][name][/getchars]type=num&[/text]> [/showif]> [/formvariables]>> [formvariables name=max&exact=false]> [showif [value]!#]> [text]search_string=[search_string]le[getchars> start=5][name][/getchars]data=[value]&[getchars> start=5][name][/getchars]type=num&[/text]> [/showif]> [/formvariables]>> So depending on how many options the user chooses, the search_string > slowly> gets built up to the point where you run it and the found items loop > does> the rest. It works great if you only select a min for one field or a > max for> one field>> BUT IT DOESN'T WORK IF YOU SELECT BOTH MIN AND MAX FROM ONE FIELD!>> Because of the way webcat works with Ranges when comparing multiple > values> on the same field of the database, this code is toast and now i have to> write some not so nice generic code to handle the same search job.>> Argh!>> okay - sorry, i didn't get much sleep last night.-- Brian Fries, BrainScan Software -- http://www.brainscansoftware.com ---------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: range vs greater than/less than (Alain Russell 2003)
Re: range vs greater than/less than (Brian Fries 2003)
Re: range vs greater than/less than (Andrew Simpson 2003)
Re: range vs greater than/less than (Brian Fries 2003)
Re: range vs greater than/less than (Andrew Simpson 2003)
Re: range vs greater than/less than (Andrew Simpson 2003)
Re: range vs greater than/less than (Brian Fries 2003)
range vs greater than/less than (Andrew Simpson 2003)

This sounds like a job for the Group Field Workaround! Defining a groupfield that contains a field you're already searching lets you search that field again...[search db=...&group1field=ABC&leABCdata=[max]&geGROUP1data=[min]...]It's kinda ugly and tricker to write in a generic fashion, but it works.- brianOn Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 01:46 PM, Andrew Simpson wrote:> This is just a comment really on the way webcat does something that i > don't> like.>> I have just finished writing a search page that lets you select from > drop> down lists to refine your search. The company sells projectors. The > search> criteria are>> min / max price> min / max resolution> min / max weight> min / max lumens (brightness)>> with a drop down for both min and max values for each item.>> You select your mins and maxiums and hopefully you get a set of > products> returned that are within the range.>> So I wrote some nice generic code that should handle all > eventuallities:>> [formvariables name=min&exact=false]> [showif [value]!#]> [text]search_string=[search_string]ge[getchars> start=5][name][/getchars]data=[value]&[getchars> start=5][name][/getchars]type=num&[/text]> [/showif]> [/formvariables]>> [formvariables name=max&exact=false]> [showif [value]!#]> [text]search_string=[search_string]le[getchars> start=5][name][/getchars]data=[value]&[getchars> start=5][name][/getchars]type=num&[/text]> [/showif]> [/formvariables]>> So depending on how many options the user chooses, the search_string > slowly> gets built up to the point where you run it and the found items loop > does> the rest. It works great if you only select a min for one field or a > max for> one field>> BUT IT DOESN'T WORK IF YOU SELECT BOTH MIN AND MAX FROM ONE FIELD!>> Because of the way webcat works with Ranges when comparing multiple > values> on the same field of the database, this code is toast and now i have to> write some not so nice generic code to handle the same search job.>> Argh!>> okay - sorry, i didn't get much sleep last night.-- Brian Fries, BrainScan Software -- http://www.brainscansoftware.com ---------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Brian Fries

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