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Chapter 6Chapter 6Chapter 6Chapter 6

Filtering & Displaying DataFiltering & Displaying Data

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Overview• In this chapter you will:

– Transfer dynamic data through the URL.

– Add repeating regions.– Creating recordsets with information

from the URL.– Adding images dynamically.

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Changing profiles.php• The profiles page displays the countries

statically.• We are going to change this to

dynamically from the database.

Profiles current page

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Profiles_details.php• Create a profiles_details.php page

from the generic template.

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profiles.php - 1• Delete the countries so the

profiles.php page is as shown.

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profiles.php - 2• Create a recordset as shown.

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profiles.php - 3• Insert a country

name field binding, as shown.

• With this insertion highlighted click on the browse icon for a link.

• Filling the browse as shown.

• Select the parameters button.

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profiles.php – 4• In the parameters dialog

box, click under the name column heading and type the names as shown.

• Click on the lighting bolt and select as shown for both values.

• This parameters button writes the url code in the link.

• Here we are passing the country ID and name in the URL.

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profiles.php – 5• Notice now the binding is a link.

• Notice the link sends the id of the country in the URL.

• With the link highlighted– In the server behavioursPanel click + and chooseRepeat Region, as shown.

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profiles.php – 6• Adding a repeat region and click on

OK.

• A section page of the page is shown. Check that the break is inside the repeat region

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profiles.php – 5• View the page. It should look like

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profiles_details.php• Open the profiles_details.php• Create a recordset and complete the page to look like below.• The following slide have the details on how complete it.

Heading 1

Heading 2

process_details.php

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Create the recordest

Click the advanced.. button.

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Combining two tables• Add the other table; region.• Add the where clause to join the

tables.

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Add Bindings & View• Add the bindings as shown on the pervious slides.• The finished page should look like:

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Inspecting the pervious sql

• Take a look at the Sql• What does it mean

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Dynamic images -1• Now we are going to add the image

that go with the country.• Place the cursor as shown.

• From the menu select insert->image.

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Dynamic images -2• Select as

shown and click OK.

• Create the imageright css rule and apply it to the image.

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Dynamic images -4• Completed page.

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Lab 6 -1• Dynamically creating a repeated region

for the tour packages and their dates.• Then the tour ID is sent in the URL to

open the tourpackages.php page.• The tourpackage.php page uses the

tour ID to display the info about the selected tour package.

• The following slides show the changes of the two pages.

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Lab 6 -2• What the page look like now.

tours.php

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Lab 6 -3• What the page will look like at the

end

tours.php

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Lab 6 -4• Current

page

tourpackages.php

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Lab 6 -5• What the page will look like at the end

tourpackages.php