More control in foreach

[mi...@bodaro.com]

One of the things I want to do is pageination – every site I've built 
needs this. One way to implement is to cache a big array server side and 
just display relavent parts from it. It would be nice if the #foreach 
macro was more like a regular for, where you can define the start and end 
index.

And really nice would be a #Break to get out of the #foreach.

I suspect that we can create our own macros? To do such things?

Mike Papper

Re: More control in foreach

[Jon Stevens <jo...@latchkey.com>]

on 2/12/01 11:17 AM, "mike@bodaro.com" <mi...@bodaro.com> wrote:

> One of the things I want to do is pageination – every site I've built
> needs this. One way to implement is to cache a big array server side and
> just display relavent parts from it. It would be nice if the #foreach
> macro was more like a regular for, where you can define the start and end
> index.

You can by properly defining the array that you are looping over.

> And really nice would be a #Break to get out of the #foreach.

why? you either want to display the data or you don't. a #if can achieve
that.

> I suspect that we can create our own macros? To do such things?

Yes.

-jon

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