Possible to have a multi record section feed into another multi record section?

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Last Post: December 20, 2012   (RSS)

By gregThomas - December 18, 2012

Hi Kevin,

It sounds like you already know how to link sections using a list field, but if not you can read how to do it here:

http://www.interactivetools.com/kb/article.php?Populate-a-list-field-from-another-section-15

I would created three separate sections, one for properties, one for seasons, and one for prices.

Season Section
In this section I would store the name of the season, and the date it starts and finishes.

Properties Section
In here I would store any property related information that you want to display on the page.

Prices section
This section would link up to the other two sections. I would have a dropdown list field that allows you to select a property, and another drop down list field that allows you to select a season and finally have a field for the price.

This should allow your customer to easily rename seasons, change the dates, etc for all of the properties at once.

Then on the main site details page for a property, you could retrieve all of the related prices for a property from the prices section, and then find the season that relates to each price.

Is this close to what you are looking for?

Thanks!
Greg Thomas







PHP Programmer - interactivetools.com

By weblm - December 18, 2012

Greg,

Thanks for the reply.....very interesting way to look at it. That's why I love these forums!!

Yes I know how to link sections....we do that now for things like reviews that we have them select a property.

I'm going to look into testing your way.....it definitely sounds possible. The only real issue is speed of updating. Every property will have about 6 different season rates......so with around 26 properties.....that would end up being 156 entries in the last Prices section.

BUT...this is very interesting and might just work.

Thanks so much!

-Kevin
LM

By weblm - December 19, 2012

Greg,

Ok, I have something working and will post code shortly to get some people's opinions on it.

One question I had is.....do you know if there is a way to have a multi record section not allow duplicate entries based on TWO fields. I know I can do one field....but I really want to restrict it based on the combo of two fields.

So in my Prices section.....I have:

property field list - this is pulled in from the Properties section
season field list - this is pulled in from the Seasons section
price text field - this is a blank tet field

Ideally what I'd like is to not let them enter a new record if a combo of BOTH property and season are being used.

Any ideas if this is possible?

-Kevin
LM

By gregThomas - December 19, 2012

Hi Kevin,

This isn't possible in the current build of CMS Builder, but it should be fairly simple to create a plugin that can do this. If you know how to create plugins, the hook you will needs is record_save_errorchecking.

If you require, you can send an e-mail to consulting@interactivetools.com and we can give you a estimate to build the plugin.

Thanks

Greg
Greg Thomas







PHP Programmer - interactivetools.com

By weblm - December 20, 2012

Greg, awesome thanks. I'll put together an email to send.

So I have the functionality working and wanted to post some of it here to see if there are better ways to do this.

To review I have the following sections:

- Properties
this section contains all the details about each new property. The customer manually enters the name)

- Pricing Seasons
this section has fields for Season name, season value (all lowercase no spaces to store in the DB), and the date range that season covers.

- Property Pricing
this section pulls in the list of Propert names from the Properties section and the list of Seasons from the Seasons seciton. We can then add a new entry for each pricing property/season combo

I then have the following DB calls at the top:


// load record from 'property_listings'
list($property_listingsRecords, $property_listingsMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'property_listings',
'where' => " TRIM(property_name) LIKE '".mysql_escape($title_like)."'",
'loadUploads' => true,
'allowSearch' => false,
'limit' => '1',
));
$property_listingsRecord = @$property_listingsRecords[0]; // get first record
if (!$property_listingsRecord) { dieWith404("Record not found!"); } // show error message if no record found


// load records from 'pricing_seasons'
list($pricing_seasonsRecords, $pricing_seasonsMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'pricing_seasons',
'loadUploads' => false,
'allowSearch' => false,
'orderBy' => 'dragSortOrder',
));

To display details on the property I use all the variables from $property_listingsRecord.


Now, to show the pricing details I do the following. Let me know if there is a better method:

<?php foreach ($pricing_seasonsRecords as $pricing_seasonsRecord): ?>

<?php
$priceRecords = mysql_query_fetch_all_assoc("SELECT price,pricing_note FROM {$TABLE_PREFIX}property_pricing WHERE season='$pricing_seasonsRecord[value]' AND property='$property_listingsRecord[num]' ORDER BY dragSortOrder DESC");
?>

<?php if ($priceRecords): ?>

<?php foreach ($priceRecords as $priceRecord): ?>

<?php echo htmlencode($pricing_seasonsRecord['title']) ?>
<br />
<?php if ($priceRecord['pricing_note']) { echo "<span style='font-size: 10px;'>".$priceRecord['pricing_note']."</span>"; } ?>

<?php echo money_format('$%i', $priceRecord['price']) ?>

<?php echo $pricing_seasonsRecord['dates'];?>

<?php endforeach ?>
<?php endif ?>
<?php endforeach ?>


I also need to grab the overall minimum and maximum price for each property. To do this, at the top I'm including these:

$minPrice = mysql_query_fetch_all_assoc("SELECT price FROM {$TABLE_PREFIX}property_pricing WHERE property='$property_listingsRecord[num]' ORDER BY price ASC");
$maxPrice = mysql_query_fetch_all_assoc("SELECT price FROM {$TABLE_PREFIX}property_pricing WHERE property='$property_listingsRecord[num]' ORDER BY price DESC");

Not sure if this is the best method or not.

I would like to say thank you again for helping. This is awesome....and is making this project be that much better.

-Kevin

LM