-=[ Registry tweaks ]=-

[Marc Swanson]

> I'll start with as spartan a linear list as I can. Folks have suggested
> 100ls, fox, A3, S3, RS2, S2, RS4, and a few more that ostensibly will be
> added to the list. Hopefully, I can automate the switchover, or else the
> registry will be down tonight or tomorrow night while I fix it all up.

You're using PHP for this right?  The way I always do select boxes when
transferring a large set of existing "hand entered" data is to run a regular
expression match on the value entered in the database rather than a hard
==.. that way if somebody has "cgt" and your dropdown is populated with
"CGT" you'll still match it.. Failing that just default to a "Blank".. I'm
sure the owners will notice the blank and update it with the new select box
when it is available.


> After that, I'll try and think of way to do a more hierarchical layout so
> people can search more "categorically". But that's not exactly pressing.

If you need some help on any parts of that let me know.  I've done a lot of
SQL regex query creation lately..  works really slick when doing advanced
searching (match the beginning of a comment field, any part of a
description, etc).


> Another thing will be to make you all put in 4 digit numbers for the
> year!

Shame shame, no Y2K compliance?  :-)


Later


-Marc-


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