Hi All,
I seem to have lost my way and I would like some advice if possible on the approach to take to a pagination issue.
The pagination itself works fine. But I have set this up using a series of href’s with a page parameter passed into the url to tell which page is current.
I would like to be able to make various selections by ticking a checkbox and have these selections stored so that as I pass backwards and forwards through the pages these selections persist(or can be reconstructed). With all the accumulated selections being processed when ever the process button is clicked.
I hope I have described that clearly enough. It would appear to me to be a perfectly reasonable goal.
My initial thought was to effectively submit a form each time paginationation took place, and part process the captured data.
To this end I have attempted to use jQuery or straight javascript to submit the the form onclick and allow the href default action to effect the pagination.
I have tried with code such as
<a href=“#” onclick=“document.forms[0].submit();return false;”>
or
<a href=“#” onclick=“document.forms[‘select_Client’].submit();return false;”>
and various variants on this.
No matter how I try to phrase this the href appears to takeover and just return me where I started.
I have also tried to use ajax in a jquery function to run the files that would normally be actioned by the form.
For example:
$(“#next”).click(function(event){
$.ajax({url: “…/process_Client_Select.php”});
});
this has the same effect.
I can do a series of redirects to preserve the selections but this doesn’t help when it come to process the selections as a whole.
I am thinking that a session variable might be the way to go. But this still means that at some point I need to detect how the checkboxes are set at a given point i.e upon the click.
I want the click to result in two actions process the form and paginate.
Well you are guys probably bored of reading these rambling thoughts. Anyone got any ideas.
Regards