Detail page linked from DA Search Wizard-created Results page?

Having created a search page and a results page I want to link from the name in the results listings to a detail page where more information from another db table would be displayed in a repeat region.

I've set up this details page with two recordsets (one for the name, the other for the additional detail) and presume that I need to either create a form variable or session variable using the name detail from the results page, but am not sure how to go about this. Would I filter my recordset for the additional detail by a form variable, session variable or something else?

You can add a query string to the url that is pointing to the detail page.

For example on your result page, the link on the name would be something like this:

<a href="product_detail.php?name=productname">productname</a>

So you will just need to update the link on the result page to add the "?name=productname" and then filter the record set on your detail page from the query string "name".


let me know if you have any other questions.

Hi Dani - thanks, that helps. So I now have a link on my results page which is:
details.php?name=practicename

but I'm not sure whether I should then (on the details page) be using a URL parameter, form variable or...?

I've attached the page - it has two recordsets, one to pull in the practicename, one to pull in whatever reviews there are for that practice from the reviews table. Thanks in advance.

You should use the URL Parameter and the Entered Value should be set to 'name' for the first record set.

Thanks again - changed the recordset so that it now uses URL parameter with 'name' as the entered value; when I hit 'test' in the recordset window it works fine, but when I test it locally nothing appears, just a blank page....

did you update the link on your result page to include the url parameter. Please send me a copy of your results page to make sure you have set that correctly.

Dani - results page attached.

Thanks.

The link on your result page should be dynamic as follow:

<a href="details.php?name=<?php echo $row_rsPractice['practicename']; ?>"><?php echo $row_rsPractice['practicename']; ?></a>

please change line 151 to:

<td align="left" valign="top" class="smalltext"><div align="left"><strong><a href="details.php?name=<?php echo $row_rsPractice['practicename']; ?>"><?php echo $row_rsPractice['practicename']; ?></a></strong></div></td>

Thanks Dani - did that and now I'm getting the practice name coming up on the page OK. However... when you go to the details page the practice name has now become a clickable link, which throws an error message as it's not linked to anything.
Also not sure why my reviews are not appearing on the details page - any ideas/anything obvious in the code that I've got wrong?
Page attached once again.

I can't see why the name is clickable on your detail page, but in regard to the review not showing i think you need to use the practice id to filter the review. so line 44-46 should be:

if (isset($row_rsPracticeInfo['practicid'])) {
$colname_rsReviews = (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? $row_rsPracticeInfo['practicid'] : addslashes($row_rsPracticeInfo['practicid']);
}


You could see i used 'practicid', but if the column in the practicelist table is name differently, make sure to rename it to the correct column name.