Listing Records in a Specific Sequence

Hi Perch,

What you can do is convert your sequence of numbers into an array. Then you can loop through your array one at a time, and select a single record.

For example, if you had a sequence like this:
$recordNumbers = "5,7,3,1";

First you can create your array like this:
$numberArray = explode(",", trim($recordNumbers, ","));

Then loop through like this:
<?php foreach ($numberArray as $num):?>
<?php
$query = "SELECT * FROM `{$TABLE_PREFIX}records` WHERE num = '".intval($num)."'";
$record = mysql_query_fetch_row_assoc($query);
?>



<?php endforeach?>

One thing to note is that this approach will not give you any of the uploads or the pseudo fields in record. If you need those, you can replace this:
<?php
$query = "SELECT * FROM `{$TABLE_PREFIX}records` WHERE num = '".intval($num)."'";
$record = mysql_query_fetch_row_assoc($query);
?>

With a call to getRecords()

Hope this helps get you started.

Hi, Jason -

This is great. I tried your first suggest - which worked but (as you said) had limited output.

I then tried the getRecords() method which was perfect.

Am I right in saying that you have to put an extra foreach() loop around the output to make it work?

Thanks again,

:0)

Perch

Hi Perch,

You could use a foreach loop, but since we are only ever returning 1 record, we could do this instead:

<?php foreach ($numberArray as $num):?>
<?php
list($Record, $RecordMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'records',
'allowSearch' => false,
'where' => "num = '".intval($num)."'",
'limit' => 1,
));

if ($Record) {
$record = $Record[0];
}
else {
continue;
}

?>



<?php endforeach?>

So you can use the variable $record the same as if you were in a foreach loop.

Hope this helps