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Since I'm writing you an email, I'll explain it there. :)
Thanks,
Michelle
>>I've never used ASP. :)
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>>All I know about POST and GET is that's how what the user types in gets back to the server.
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>>I'm really lost with the whole process. They fill in the form, I get their answers into an object, I think, and do the search and fill a cursor with the results. But since this is stateless, how do I pass the cursor from page to page?
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>You have the right idea basically. First off, let me make sure I understand the whole scenario. It sounds like:
>User supplies some value used to select records from a table into a cursor.
>You want to display those records in a page.
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>Why do you need to pass a cursor from page to page? I'm probably just not understanding the whole scenario, fill me in please!
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>>Thanks,
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>>Michelle
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>>>Passing parameters is easy and works basically the same as it does in ASP. Depending on whether you use a POST or GET method from the parent, inside the child page (the one recieving some parameter), you can issue something like:
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>>><%
>>>lcCompany = FOX.GETFORMVAR("Company")
>>>%>
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>>>In this case, lcCompany would be a variable which now holds the value of the variable Company passed to the page via a Form POST call.
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>>>HTH, but if you are unfamiliar with form POST and GET, let me know and I'll provide more details.
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>>>>I wondered about building complex apps. I can easily see how it works when you do everything in one page, but what if what you're doing spans multiple pages?
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>>>>One thing I'm trying to figure out is how to do a search page. On one page, I can have the user fill in the form and search the table, and give them the first X matches, but how do you give them the next X matches?
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>>>>Thanks,
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>>>>Michelle
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>>>>>I've been staying away from this thread because I didn't want to appear as if I was hocking my service via UT, but...
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>>>>>My server has been running AFP for several months now. AFP is a great product and very stable. I haven't tried WWC so I can't compare the 2 other than to say I have always heard good things about WWC. I have taken a look at the Visual Webbuilder product and it looks like a great tool to use with WWC, something that is definitely lacking in AFP.
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>>>>>AFP's strengths are its power and simplicity. I was productive in less than 10 minutes of first trying it. Its drawbacks are I feel like I've stepped backwards to the 2.x days in the way you manage a project. You can use FP and Interdev, no question about it, but it is a scripting engine. But for a large scale web based project (complexity of the app not the size or amount of the data), managing could be difficult.
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>>>>>Just my 2 cents.
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