Definately difficult...

[Anon]

Hi.
I am currently building a website for a recruitment company. They have two databases: one database containing user id's and passwords, and a database containing the details of the recruitment company's candidates. I have made a search engine so that users can search for the right candidate for their company. What I want to do is to create some sort of link next to each of the candidates which the user can click on and save that candidate for later reference. I then want to create a page that lists all of the candidates that the user has saved (like a favourites page).

I don't expect to get an exact answer, but if anybody can point me in the direction of some sort of tutorial, I would be very appreciative.

[Anon]

basically, I would make your search results page a form with checkboxes. Then the page that processes that form would add the selected IDs to another table that ties the current user ID to the selected user IDs. Then for the favorites page, you select all the items from the new table that match the current user.

You could also do this with sessions, but the database method has the advantage of persistence - i.e. the user can return to their favorites again and again.

YOu could also make the favorites page editable so they could remove favorites with a check or something.

not really all THAT difficult... :-)

[Anon]

There can be numerous ways. One way:

Besides each user, show a link. When somebody clicks the link, a popup window opens, which does a INSERT to insert the candiates ID in a special table, corresponding to the Id of the person who wants to track him.

Later on the favourites page, just list all the candidates corresponding to the member's ID....and u r done.