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Too much data can be overwhelming and not very useful. We'll start filtering our data by project, so only a portion of that data is shown at a time.
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Grouping has started to make
our data more manageable.
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But we're still showing
all the data all the time.
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That can get overwhelming quickly if
we're using this application everyday.
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So the next thing I want
to do is filter our data so
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only a portion of that
data is shown at a time.
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We'll start filtering by project.
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So the first thing we need to
do is give the user the option
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to select a project for the report.
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Let's create a new form with a drop-down.
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Back in reports.php, below the header,
we'll start with a new form.
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Once again,
I've added some styling for you.
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So set the class equal to
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form-container space form-report.
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Set the action equal to report.php and
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set the method equal to get.
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This will allow us to share
the specific report with others.
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Let's add a label for our filter.
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Filter:.
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Now we're ready for the select field
with id and name equal to filter.
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We add a blank option that
tells the user to select one.
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Then we can add our projects.
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We'll use PHP to pull the project
information from the database with another
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foreach loop.
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Foreach get_project_list
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as item.
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We want to know both the item and
the value we wish to filter so our option
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value will include both these pieces
of information separated by a colon.
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Each of the items in this
foreach loop is a project.
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So we'll start with echo
option value equals project.
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Then add a colon,
followed by the project ID.
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Item, project ID.
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For the display, we'll use
the project title, echo item title.
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Then we can close the option tag.
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Finally, we need the submit button for
this form.
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Once again, add the class equals button.
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type equals submit.
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And the value we'll use is Run.
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Let's preview this page in the browser.
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We select Project 1 and Run.
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We can see that the data
added to our query string but
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it hasn't changed the report.
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Let's go back to work spaces and
do something with that new data.
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At the top of the report's page,
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just below the variable,
let's add a conditional to check.
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if not empty GET filter.
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Then we'll set the filter variable
equal to this form value.
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INPUT_GET, filter,
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FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING.
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We're also going to use the explode
function to make this variable and
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an array of values instead of a string,
We'll use colon for the delimiter.
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Now we need to update our function
to accept a more detailed filter.
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In functions.php, the get_task_list
function is going to need a where clause.
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Let's start with an empty string.
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Then we can add it to our SQL statement.
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We only need a where clause if
the filter parameter is an array.
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if is_array filter.
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Then we use the first element
to determine the field.
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if filter[0]
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equals project.
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We're going to set our $where = WHERE
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projects.project_id equals placeholder.
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Then we use the second element to
determine the value we're going to bind.
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So after our prepare.
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We add the conditional again.
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if is_array filter, results.
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BindValue(1, $filter[1]) and
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then use PDO::PARAM_INT.
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Let's preview this in the browser again.
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Our query string stays the same.
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And this time, we see that our filter is
now working to select only the tasks for
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a particular project.
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