Re: [SLUG] Complex Web Form 'stacks'

2004-08-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:34:34AM +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > Thanks to James and the others for contributing to this discussion. > There are some good thoughts. Also some great ones from the AJUG list. > > The reason, which I failed to explain clearly in the first post for a > 'stack' is tha

Re: [SLUG] Complex Web Form 'stacks'

2004-08-15 Thread Stuart Guthrie
Thanks to James and the others for contributing to this discussion. There are some good thoughts. Also some great ones from the AJUG list. The reason, which I failed to explain clearly in the first post for a 'stack' is that the first lookup might not be the only leap out from that form. ie Ord

RE: [SLUG] Complex Web Form 'stacks'

2004-08-13 Thread Adam W
> > I'm all ears, unless I hear otherwise, I'll probably write > the 'stack' > > technology. > > I don't know that it's a "stack" problem. I can think of two > ways to do > it: > > 1. Use the zany xml-rpc stuff in Javascript to do the query. > This sounds like a nice idea in theory but I don'

Re: [SLUG] Complex Web Form 'stacks'

2004-08-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 04:13:29PM +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > This is a general 'how do you do it if you do it' question about web > application design. > > Although I use struts, I'm sure a Perl or Php example would suffice. > Even if you know of an OSS project that does this thing... > > He

Re: [SLUG] Complex Web Form 'stacks'

2004-08-12 Thread James Gregory
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 16:13 +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > I'm all ears, unless I hear otherwise, I'll probably write the 'stack' > technology. I don't know that it's a "stack" problem. I can think of two ways to do it: 1. Use the zany xml-rpc stuff in Javascript to do the query. This sounds lik

Re: [SLUG] Complex Web Form 'stacks'

2004-08-12 Thread Stuart Cooper
> This is a general 'how do you do it if you do it' > question about web application design. As opposed to a "how do you do it if you don't do it" question- which is much easier to answer, the answer is simply "you don't do it" :-) > Web Form: > - > ORDER