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1. Re: Export to XML Behavior and Recorsets - Questions
Günter Schenk Sep 13, 2007 4:01 AM (in response to oicram)Hi Marcio,
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So, in this case, how can we show the information of the record associated with an image using, not the traditional repeat region, but the Spry Repeat region?
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with SPRY only, and from the "generated on the fly" XML data. When it comes to *how* this is done with Spry, I gotta say :: RTFM, LOL :-)
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Can we apply the Export to XML Behavior not only in the traditional recorset but also in the FileListRecorset - Would this produce any results?
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I doubt this, as ADDT´s Export to XML Behavior is embedded in a "stand alone" page.
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Can we apply a Spry Repeat Region to a Spry Collapsible Panel so that the detail information of the record can be "hidden" in a Collapsible Panel?
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is that really related to ADDT ? ;-)
However, displaying XML data with SPRY is a totally different thing than displaying stuff from a PHP recordset directly -- that can´t even be mixed on a page, as none of both "methods" even know of each other´s existance and both use sort of "proprietary" technics.
And here comes my shameless plug, lol :-) You might want to read my Adobe DevNet article "Exchanging data using the Spry framework for Ajax and PHP" (subtitle: "Create a dynamic image gallery in Dreamweaver CS3 by retrieving images from a directory and generating XML data on the fly") -- that´s something I actually invented and wrote for folks who´d like to have a SPRY only equivalent of ADDT´s "File List Recordset" at hand. I think that most of the stuff you´re trying to achieve, is mentioned in this tutorial.
Cheers,
Günter Schenk
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2. Re: Export to XML Behavior and Recorsets - Questions
oicram Sep 13, 2007 4:29 AM (in response to oicram)I see... and I'm readling already the article but there is a big issue here:
>displaying XML data with SPRY is a totally different thing than displaying stuff from a PHP recordset directly -- that can´t even be mixed on a page, as none of both "methods" even know of each other´s existance and both use sort of "proprietary" technics". >
So why do we need: Export recorset to XML at all?
I have an advanced search page with several drop-downs, etc...
All this information is related with a Recorset. What I dream of is, when the user clicks submit it will not appear a Repeat Region but a "Spry Repeat Region". How? Because we will using the "Export Recordset to XML behavior that will "generate a new XML file" eatch time the Recorset Changes.
But reading all the articles it seams that for doing work with the sprys I need a spry data set (instead of recordset), and for work with the "spry data set" I need to have a Filter/Search page also in Spry...
So, in a simple manner, this cannot be done?
Another freaky solution by:
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3. Re: Export to XML Behavior and Recorsets - Questions
Günter Schenk Sep 13, 2007 5:04 AM (in response to oicram)Hi Marcio,
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So why do we need: Export recorset to XML at all?
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No. And as you´ll most likely - sooner or later - be stumbling across some cases where ADDT´s current "Export recordset to XML" behaviour will not be flexible enough (e.g. wrapping the contents of certain XML nodes in CDATA isn´t currently supported), and as the "on the fly" generation of XML data based on a query can in fact very easily be done with a little PHP coding, I can nothing but recommend learning this "manual" approach in addtion to using ADDT´s "Export recordset to XML" behaviour for simple tasks.
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I have an advanced search page with several drop-downs, etc...
All this information is related with a Recorset. What I dream of is, when the user clicks submit it will not appear a Repeat Region but a "Spry Repeat Region". How?
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AFAIK, the SPRY help and quite some threads in the SPRY forums are about sorting SPRY data using drop down menus within the very same page
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Because we will using the "Export Recordset to XML behavior that will "generate a new XML file" eatch time the Recorset Changes
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yes, a sort of "virtual" file after all containing e.g. all up-to-date file contents -- but the "manual" approach would do the same.
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But reading all the articles it seams that for doing work with the sprys I need a spry data set (instead of recordset), and for work with the "spry data set" I need to have a Filter/Search page also in Spry.
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you´re a good boy ! :-)
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So, in a simple manner, this cannot be done?
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PHP is PHP, and SPRY is SPRY -- guess I´ve rarely provided such a smart answer, lol :-)
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Another freaky solution by:
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...Marcio as always, and you got another completely nonessential reply by:
Günter Schenk
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4. Re: Export to XML Behavior and Recorsets - Questions
oicram Sep 13, 2007 5:49 AM (in response to oicram)>AFAIK, the SPRY help and quite some threads in the SPRY forums are about sorting SPRY data using drop down menus within the very same page
But not Drop-Down menus based on a recorset, only in a Spry Data Set.
Right?


