Re: [mv] loop search

[Victor Nolton <ven@pragakhan.com>]

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The problem is I am now to the point where there are to many items, I 
want the pages to display like 20 per page and then display the next 
previous tags as a normal scan would do. was just curious about this.

Ven
P.S. It's a small tour, look for them on the fmaily values tour if 
things go okay. But we'll be in DC on the 13th :) (I'm from PA, I 
know the frustration) Praise The Lords, Misbehave!



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>Victor Nolton wrote:
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>> I've been using [loop search] on some of my pages. unfortunitally the
>> results are starting to get too long. I know I can set ml=20... but I
>> want it to act like a normal
>> http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/storename/scan/....
>> where you get the choice of next/previous and so on.
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>I had the same problem where I wanted to tag 3 items for sale out of
>database of 1500+. The way that I had it setup originally was that each
>item would have a 'sale' field containing the amount of the price break.
>It woudl then loop through the database and if there was somethignin the
>sale field it woudl process it... This started to take a *long* time. I
>eventually hit upon the idea of using a seperate database containing the
>skus of the 3 or 4 items I wanted to discount and the amount of the
>price break. That way I only had to loop through 1 very very small
>database. By using the [loop-data table field] foo I coudl use the key
>results from the small database to reference the large one.
>
>Mostly I'm relating this because the solution might not be in the way
>you code the minivend but how you organize the data. I'm finding that
>more and more of the problems I face can be solved through a more
>complex data structure than a more complex code base. My feeling is that
>this, while it may take more setup time, is actually easier to maintain
>and faster to process. Just an idea...
>
>Also, why the hell is LoA and Praga skipping Pittsburgh this tour? Do we
>really smell that bad?
>
>chris
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