Re: [nyphp-talk] Ajax UI, where to display a detailed view of a record

2008-12-09 Thread Greg Rundlett
On Tuesday 09 December 2008 17:38:22 David Mintz wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:37 PM, David Mintz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Felix Shnir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Then look no further than this: http://prototype-ui.com/ > >> > >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at

Re: [nyphp-talk] Ajax UI, where to display a detailed view of a record

2008-12-09 Thread David Mintz
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:37 PM, David Mintz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Felix Shnir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Then look no further than this: http://prototype-ui.com/ >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:19 PM, David Mintz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> M

Re: [nyphp-talk] Ajax UI, where to display a detailed view of a record

2008-12-09 Thread David Mintz
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Felix Shnir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then look no further than this: http://prototype-ui.com/ > > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:19 PM, David Mintz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My thanks to everybody. Modal div sounds like a nice idea. I am already >> using Proto

Re: [nyphp-talk] Ajax UI, where to display a detailed view of a record

2008-12-09 Thread Felix Shnir
Then look no further than this: http://prototype-ui.com/ On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:19 PM, David Mintz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My thanks to everybody. Modal div sounds like a nice idea. I am already > using Prototype so I think I will look for an implementation based on it > rather than JQuer

Re: [nyphp-talk] Ajax UI, where to display a detailed view of a record

2008-12-09 Thread David Mintz
My thanks to everybody. Modal div sounds like a nice idea. I am already using Prototype so I think I will look for an implementation based on it rather than JQuery. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Corey H Maass - gelform.com < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a Front End guy, another vote for this.

Re: [nyphp-talk] Ajax UI, where to display a detailed view of a record

2008-12-09 Thread Corey H Maass - gelform.com
As a Front End guy, another vote for this. And a general nudge for using thickbox. http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/ We use it all the time. I consider it the best implementation of the modal window. On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:27:47 -0500, "John Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I would use a modal

Re: [nyphp-talk] Ajax UI, where to display a detailed view of a record

2008-12-09 Thread Steve Manes
David Mintz wrote: Just wondering how you folks approach this not-uncommon problem in the age of Web 2.0 A client had a similar requirement so so I built him something like this: https://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/listing/dodMovies.jsp?category=All My stuff runs on a protected server but you get

Re: [nyphp-talk] Ajax UI, where to display a detailed view of a record

2008-12-09 Thread John Campbell
I would use a modal dialog or append the content below the record and slide down the new content. -John C. ___ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php

Re: [nyphp-talk] Ajax UI, where to display a detailed view of a record

2008-12-09 Thread Tim Lieberman
Display the record in a (possibly modal) float-div-type window. Most of the major javascript libraries do this out-of-the-box or with some kind of UI plug-in. Or it might make more sense to do some kind of border-layout with three panes. A Search Form pane, a search results pane, and a det

Re: [nyphp-talk] Ajax UI, where to display a detailed view of a record

2008-12-09 Thread Joseph Crawford
I have always liked the way that ebay motors allows you to search, it uses a sidebar and then allows you to remove items by clicking an X Another method may be that of how politics.com does the login screen using a modal div that greys out the background page. Joseph Crawford On Dec 9, 200

[nyphp-talk] Ajax UI, where to display a detailed view of a record

2008-12-09 Thread David Mintz
Working on a page that gives the user the ability to do some sophisticated searching of a database. I do an Ajax request, display the query resullts in a table and add an event handler to the 'click' event on each row so that a tooltip/context menu pops up for the user to do various actions with th

[nyphp-talk] reports/graphs realtime mashups

2008-12-09 Thread Rolan Yang
This is somewhat, but not completely related to the "Report with line breaks" thread. I discovered yesterday that Google spreadsheets allows importing external data into the tables with the "=importData(URL)" function. Thought it would be cool to import some weather and home automation data w

Re: [nyphp-talk] Report with line breaks

2008-12-09 Thread Fernando Gabrieli
Nestor, you could use html2pdf which will let you create all the code in HTML and then export it as a PDF, a line break is just adding a or dompdf as someone suggested before, but i think that the 2nd has no more support (i read so in the forums at sf.net some months ago) On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 a

Re: [nyphp-talk] Report with line breaks

2008-12-09 Thread Elijah Insua
dompdf? On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Néstor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all for your answers. > > I have been searching the internet and it seems that it is very hard to > create reports. > > Thanks again, > > Nestor :-) > > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Kenneth Downs <[EMAIL P

Re: [nyphp-talk] Report with line breaks

2008-12-09 Thread Néstor
Thanks to all for your answers. I have been searching the internet and it seems that it is very hard to create reports. Thanks again, Nestor :-) On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Kenneth Downs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Néstor wrote: > > But with PDF can you control page breaks? Page headings

Re: [nyphp-talk] Report with line breaks

2008-12-09 Thread Kenneth Downs
Néstor wrote: But with PDF can you control page breaks? Page headings? Yes and Yes. Is there a default number of lines per page? Determined by font size, line height and page size. When printing a cell in a table is there a way to tell how many lines printing a cell will take because a

Re: [nyphp-talk] Report with line breaks

2008-12-09 Thread Rolan Yang
Kenneth Downs wrote: Néstor wrote: When creating a report how do you guys handle line breaks? When printing a table text table cell how do you do so that part of text is not on one page and part on another? Thanks, Have you tried fpdf (fpdf.org) to make things in PDF format? I tried making

Re: [nyphp-talk] Report with line breaks

2008-12-09 Thread Néstor
But with PDF can you control page breaks? Page headings? Is there a default number of lines per page? When printing a cell in a table is there a way to tell how many lines printing a cell will take because a cell can be 1 line or many. I have create a report but the managers do not want part of a

Re: [nyphp-talk] Report with line breaks

2008-12-09 Thread Kenneth Downs
Néstor wrote: When creating a report how do you guys handle line breaks? When printing a table text table cell how do you do so that part of text is not on one page and part on another? Thanks, Have you tried fpdf (fpdf.org) to make things in PDF format? I tried making HTML reports a few ye

Re: [nyphp-talk] Report with line breaks

2008-12-09 Thread David Krings
John Campbell wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Tom Sartain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's surprising how much control you can get over printouts with CSS. In theory... those CSS properties are only supported by Safari, and IE8. Unfortunately I found that out the hard way. -John Campb