March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
15h 52m
English
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Searching and Browsing
Example 13-3 shows the searching and browsing search.1 script used in the winestore. The script browses wines by selecting a combination of a wine region name and a wine type. For example, the script can browse the Red wines from the Margaret River region. The user can also choose to browse All regions or All wine types. The browsing interface supports Previous and Next page functionality using embedded links, as well as direct access to any page in the results.
The script is based on the browse( )
function discussed in Chapter 5, which is included
here renamed as showWines( )
.
The showWines( ) function is customized for
presenting wine details and has calls to the functions
showVarieties( )
and
showPricing( )
from the include.inc
include file. It also has embedded links to add one or a dozen
bottles of the displayed wine to the shopping cart using the
cart.3 script discussed in Chapter 11.
The body of the script checks if search criteria have been provided
as GET method parameters. If they have, these are
used as parameters to the query that retrieves wines. If
GET method parameters aren’t
provided, the query is configured using any previous search criteria
that have been saved as the session variables
sessionRegionName and
sessionWineType. In either case, the current
search criteria are then saved in the session variables for future
use. The query string itself is created using the
setupQuery( )
function.
After running the query and presenting the ...
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