David, Keep me informed on the IEEE thing. I'll help out but I don't know when we will be meeting. Janet Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. -- Will Smith -----Original Message----- From: delug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:delug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Huerta Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 6:21 PM To: delug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ DeLUG ] :: Fwd: [AzPHP] Meeting Tomorrow (3/22): Robust Interfaces For those interested in PHP development, the AzPHP group is having a meeting tommorow. Here's the scoop: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eric Thelin <eric@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:24:58 -0700 (MST) Subject: [AzPHP] Meeting Tomorrow (3/22): Robust Interfaces To: azphp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: madair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Once again tomorrow is the Fourth Tuesday so we will have our regularly scheduled meeting at Walt's TV @7:00. For directions see www.azphp.org. Topic: Implementing a robust wizard-like user interface. Handling complex transactions (ordering big ticket items with multiple configuration options, car insurance forms, vacation reservations, etc.) can be problematic, requiring long and many times confusing forms. Implementing a Wizard type interface with multiple screens requesting small chunks of information can help. But it can lead to a strict information entry sequence, and problems if some information is already "on-file", but incorrect. Add to that a business user's desire to perform multiple transactions at the same time or temporarily break out of an existing transaction to update other data, and you have a programming nightmare. We'll talk about a methodology to track the context of each page sent to a user's browser and how to track and handle multiple user requests while maintaining a simple, easy to navigate user interface. We'll also review some programming tips & tricks, plus issues implementing OOP in the PHP 5 interpreted environment. _______________________________________________ AzPHP mailing list AzPHP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://list.azphp.org/mailman/listinfo/azphp -- .dh