Re: Form Design Advice

php on my dev box (winxp with apache and cygwin) is
installed as cgi, though the production db will be set
up as a module.

i'm using php 4.3, the latest version of adodb, and
postgresql 7.4.

--- Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov> wrote:

>
> On Mar 1, 2005, at 3:39 PM,
> <operationsengineer1@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > i'm developing a number of data entry forms.
> thanks
> > to many on this board, i'm getting pretty close.
> i
> > *really* do appreciate everyone's knowledge and
> > insight and their unselfish spirit.
> >
> > i want my data enterer to be able to verify what
> they
> > entered and still minimize the clicks required to
> > enter data.
> >
> > i ahve a form process that looks like this...
> >
> > 1. display blank form
> > 2. perform insert after data is submitted
> (assuming no
> > errors which i check for)
> > 3. perform select to get data entered
> > 4. save data in global session array
> > 5. redisplay the empty form (ready for new input)
> with
> > the printed session array components (representing
> > what was entered) above the form followed by "
> > successfully entered."
> >
> > now that i've moved beyond filling in one column
> in
> > one table, this seems to be an overhead hog -
> > especially when multiple columns are entered into
> > multiple tables.
> >
> > it's design decision time... am i being to picky
> by
> > wanting to display the data without adding any
> extra
> > button clicks?
> >
> > does anybody have a "cool green" way of getting
> this
> > done?
> >
> > i'm thinking i can just do the data entry (and
> avoid
> > the extra selects and session work) and include a
> > button to include a user input variable number of
> most
> > recent entries.
>
> In what framework are you doing this--CGI?
>
> Sean
>
>




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