[ic] Way to [query] tall instead of wide?
Peter
peter at pajamian.dhs.org
Sun Sep 4 05:26:47 UTC 2011
On 04/09/11 14:16, Paul Jordan wrote:
>
> Usually you can query select *, grab a bunch of fields, iterate over the
> results found. What if though, I wanted to a bunch of key-value pairs
> from a mess of rows?
>
> As an example to grasp, let's say that all text on every page was
> editable. You're not going to make tables with a ton of awkward columns,
> you going to produce something like this (key omitted for brevity):
>
> page_id area_name area_value
> 1 title My Designer Yoyo's
> 1 heading Welcome to my......
> 1 email_link Hit me up!
> 1 step_1_desc To do step 1, just....
> 1 step 1_title Do this first!
> (Assume a multi-part uniqueness on page_id+area_name)
>
> Is there some way to query this and still end up with: [sql-param title]
> [sql-param heading] and so on? The body would not loop of course.
Yep, this is possible. It shouldn't be difficult to make a usertag to
do this, or to just do it in a straight [perl] block.
Peter
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