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[David Mintz]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:28 PM, csnyder <chsnyder at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:53 AM, David Mintz <david at davidmintz.org> wrote:
>
> > Before I start trying to un-break it please tell me if this logic is
> sound:
> > when they do an ajax request, store the query params in the session.
> > Whenever they GET the page itself, look first for these session vars and
> use
> > them if they exist, else use the defaults.
> >
>
> That's probably the easiest way to do it, if you're already using
> sessions.
>
> You could also use js to write the current params directly to cookie.



This works. It's kind of baroque, if not to say warped, but within a
controller method in a Zend Framework app, we go:


        $session = new Zend_Session_Namespace('Schedule');

        $params = (object) $this->getRequest()->getParams();
        $defaultParams = array(
            'language'=>'all',
            'date' => date('Y-m-d')
        );

        foreach ($defaultParams as $name => $default) {
            if (!empty($params->$name)) {
                ${$name} = $session->$name = $params->$name ;
            } elseif ($session->$name) {
                ${$name} = $session->$name;
            } else {
                ${$name} = $default;
            }
        }

       // then $date and $language get passed to data-fetching methods in my
model

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David Mintz
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