[RESOLVED] Editing Form Data

[greggB]

I have a page that displays both a table of Quotes as well as a form to add/edit a quote. Each row has an Edit link. I have my pages broken up like this...

manage_quotes_view.php - handles the display of the view. Uses DAO object to get all quotes for the table
manage_quotes_action.php - handles all the actions (add/edit/delete/publish).
manage_quotes.tpl - the Smarty template for the view.

When I click the edit link I use my DAO to grab the correct quote based on the id. The problem is that since my view.php is in charge of displaying the page, what is the best way to get the quote data from the action.php to the _view.php? Do I have to use the session to do this? Or is there another fancy way? Currently I am using header("Location: manage_quotes_view.php"); to redirect to the view page. Do I need to do it differently and supply query string params?

Should I be going about this completely differently?

Thanks.

Gregg

[wilku]

greggB wrote:

The problem is that since my view.php is in charge of displaying the page, what is the best way to get the quote data from the action.php to the view.php? Do I have to use the session to do this? Or is there another fancy way? Currently I am using header("Location: manage_quotes_view.php"); to redirect to the view page. Do I need to do it differently and supply query string params?

I don't understand your idea. Let's say you edit your quote - after following edit link view.php should present some edit form. What does action.php do then?
If you want to keep this logic you can include view.php from _action.php as well.
I would do this task in another way (I'm not saying it's better 😉 ):
- manage_quotes.php for all actions (view/edit/add/delete)
- view.tpl,edit.tpl,add.tpl,delete.tpl - forms, presentation of quotes
Smarty would be initiated from within manage_quotes.php - i don't see the point in creating another php script just to do this. Smarty itself divides code from templates (that is action from viewing).
En example.
When called without parameters manage_quotes.php would grab data from database and tell smarty to display it using view.tpl template. If called like manage_quotes.php?action=edit_form&id=some_id manage quotes should grab data for that record, and tell smarty to display it in edit.tpl template. Action for the form in edit.tpl should be something like manage_quotes.php?action=edit. When called like that manage_quotes would edit data in database with the data from form, read all the quotes and and display view.tpl again. Of course view.tpl should have some placeholder for message just to say that data was changed succesfully (or not).
Hope it helps.

[greggB]

Thanks wilku. I figured there was something simple I was just overlooking. I'll mark this as resolved and go on my merry way.

Cheers.

Gregg