Thanks for the code. I ended up with something very similar,
I just ran a query finding first record starting with letter while looping
thru the alphabet (cache query so it only runs once like yours) then pass it
off as an array 0 or 1 for each letter if has record it becomes a link if 0
then just
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Dave Maharaj wrote:
> Has anyone created, thought of , started on the idea of an alphabetical
> character paging system?
>
> So rather than 1 | 2 | 3 it spits out A |B |C?
I did that awhile ago. It originally was a non-Cake site and I had
most of the legwork done
The most efficient way database-wise would be to have a char(1)
database column that you populate with whatever the first letter of
the field you're using... that way it could be indexed and easily
counted. It would be slightly slower when saving data but (I assume)
much faster retrieving it.
If
Sorry , my first thought would be to do a looping find->first of each letter
and so if it found a record starting with A set that link true, if nothing
for B then just the letter no link and co on...
The only problem I see is 26 queries just to build the paging links.
Other ideas?
Tha
