Robert V. Zwink wrote:
> This particular application is designed to assist someone working on data
> entry, and is currently in production. She inputs 100's of mail-in reply
> cards into a database using a php webpage. The first field of the form is
> for the email address listed on the reply card. If the email address is
> already in the database, the person doing data entry will see an image of a
> red light, if the email address is not in the database the person doing data
> entry will see an image of a green light. Kind of weird, true, but exactly
> what she wanted. Why should the person doing data entry have to type in
> email address, mailing address, first name, last name, etc. just to get an
> error saying duplicate entry found? This way she can choose to replace the
> record or just skip it depending on the results (red or green). The
> changing image increases her productivty by decreasing time spent inputing
> duplicate data.
>
> And also is one possible answer to the question, "How do I access php from
> JavaScript".
>
> I fail to see how this is a "horrible construction". Solves a problem with
> minimal input from user, quickly, and completely. How is this horrible?
> Its a functional tool, that is used ever day with 0 complaints.
>
> Horrible?
> Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it
> means."
Michael Geier wrote:
> No it's not.
> First one is changing the address of the current window.
> Second one is a popup window leaving the first one intact.
>
> Just semantics.
A question for the both a you: Did either one of you actually _READ_
my message completely? No.
Michael... I said "same _KIND_OF_ construction". I didn't say it's
exactly the same. Kind of you to tell me thing I already know, but
it doesn't change anything. It still is the same _kind_of_
construction. Like I wrote before; you redirect someone to a
different page. And whether you do that in the same window or in a
window that pops up makes no change to that. The user still goes to
a different page for the result of the referenced PHP-script.
And Robert... Seems like a pretty cool application you got there and
for what you're doing there, the images _are_ a good solution. You
want the 'light' to switch from green to red depending on a db-query
in a different PHP-script. And it does, without the user having to
leave the page. Smart!
But like a wrote before; if you're not using any images on your
page, it's not a nice solution. Then one should put images on a page
where he/she doesn't want any images. And, like I wrote, then you
get the Sitestat/Nedstat kind of constructions where you have to put
a transparent image from 1x1 pixel on the page. That's not the way
to do it.
And why wouldn't I know what horrible means? Because I keep using
that word? Wow... then you must have absolutely no clue of what
words like 'is' and 'the' mean. Yes, I know... this doesn't make
sense... Neither does your remark (...)
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