Question

So I’ve been struggling with finding a simple and efficient solution for the following problem. The solution I have now works, but since I’m working on this for the sake of learning …

So, the case:

I have a PHP page which gets loads of persons from a DB, then sorts them and finally puts all persons
in a html list. What I’m after is a elegant solution to edit these persons by clicking on them from the list. I’ve found a jQuery pop-up solution that looks brilliant, but not so easy to use for beginners.

Since there are several persons I need to produce a different pop-up window depending
on which person is clicked. The problem is that the jQuery pop-up is based on the html being pre made, which is obviously hard since I don’t know which person the user will click.

The best I’ve come up with so far is sending a GET -variable to the page with the person list, which then checks if there is a valid variable from GET and produces the HTML for the clicked person based on the id/variable. The problem with this is that I have to essentially run the same query twice; once to get all persons and once to get the clicked person. It isn’t a big problem, it’s more that since I’m new with jQuery I’m wondering if there is a simpler/better solution. I’m not really sure what jQuery can and can’t do.

Thanks for any replies.

Answer 1

kinda the standard way would be to pass the persons as JSON, and use the jquery templating system to build the forms. Of course this could be a bit daunting to a beginner, but its not that hard.