URL's differ...

Hey Jason

Just wondering why the system would use the following urls

portfolio.php?pageNum_PortfolioRS=2&totalRows_PortfolioRS=16

portfolio.php?pageNum_PortfolioRS=1

They are both doing the same thing but on different sites, yet the first has added on the '&totalRows_PortfolioRS=16' bit.... I get that the 16 refers to the number of entries for that recordset but wondering how to get rid of that (if indeed I can)?

Cheers

Jamie

the totalRows_Port folioRS=16 portion is added if the Repeat region you are using to display the records is set to return 16 rows at a time. Set the repeat region to return all rows, and that portion of the URL will not be needed.

Originally Said By: Jason Byrnes

  Set the repeat region to return all rows, and that portion of the URL will not be needed.  

But if I do that, dont I lose the pagination?

I am just comparing to sites that I have created. Both have pagination set, one has been set to show 10 records and the other 4 records to show.

One of them has the url like this portfolio.php?pageNum_PortfolioRS=1

and the other has the url like portfolio.php?pageNum_PortfolioRS=2&totalRows_Port folioRS=16

Obviously the latter is not great to be used when trying to do a mod_rewrite, but that aside, I just dont understand why one wouold be 'normal' and the other would show the number of items to be shown....

Sorry if I am not explaining this very well :S

The totalrows is added by the navigation to save time. Since large recordsets can take a while to return the total number of rows it will take the number from the url if it exists so that it won't have to count the rows again.

Thanks Ray

Am I ok in removing it and if so, which bit of code would I adjust to that end?

Jamie

If you remove it, like hand editing any server side code, it may stop you from being able to edit the recordset from the server behaviors menu.

You should be able to see the area of code where it is added just below the recordset definition on top of the page. You could just remove it there.

Cool... thats done-thanks

Why would 2 sites differ in the set up like that?

I'm not sure... maybe different versions of Dreamweaver? That code is written by Dreamweaver when you add pagination and record counts to your page, so somehow the pages were created differently in Dreamweaver causing the differences.

Cheers Ray.