Maintain Min amount of records in table and total records
4 posts by 3 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: February 7, 2011 (RSS)
By Twocans - February 5, 2011
I see you guys have a Max Records Field
Admin > Section Editors > Advanced> Max Records
It would be really great were you to add a Minimum Records also.
Take for example
http://216.119.114.156/elevator-panel.php
I have a few of these panel types which I got from pvii, they work very well with your cms. In the example above I would want to make sure my user always had a minimum of 1 record.
So it would be really great were the cms had a function of setting the "Minimum Records" and also been able to call a variable for the "Total Records in table" .
Cheers
kenny
Re: [twocans] Maintain Min amount of records in table and total records
By gkornbluth - February 5, 2011 - edited: February 5, 2011
This short recipe from my CMSB Cookbook http://www.thecmsbcookbook.com might help to get you started.
WANT TO SHOW A RECORD COUNT ON YOUR WEB PAGE
You can use this to see the total number of records displayed:
<?php echo $your_table_nameMetaData['totalRecords']; ?>There's a few other variables that can be used besides “totalRecords” as well, you can list them all with this code:
<xmp><?php print_r($your_table_nameMetaData); ?></xmp>Take advantage of a free 3 month trial subscription, only for CMSB users, at: http://www.thecmsbcookbook.com/trial.php
Re: [twocans] Maintain Min amount of records in table and total records
By Jason - February 7, 2011
How would you want this feature to work? What would happen if a user had fewer than the Minimum number of records?
If it's a matter of figuring out how many records you're working with at run time, you could use the php count() function.
For example:
<?php
$recordsReturned = count ($listingsRecords);
?>You can then test this value to make sure it falls within the range you want.
Would this accomplish what you need?
Hope this helps
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Re: [twocans] Maintain Min amount of records in table and total records
By Twocans - February 7, 2011
I will purchase the cookbook next week.
regards
Kenny