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Description: Why Bother, Eh?
Class: Result Class - Rule-based system for processing data tied to a DB result id.
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Why bother with this Result Class anyway? REASON #1 Allows for significant reuse of HTML forms. One bit of HTML can act as a "search" form, "edit" form, or "add" form. REASON #2 Optionally adds "next" and "prev" controls to let users scroll through an arbitrary number of results. REASON #3 Let's you do very different things depending on the number of results you get from a query. * If you get too many results, you can force the user to further specifiy the query. * If you get 10 results you can show a link to each one. * If you get one result you can take the user to a form to edit the result. * If you don't get any results you can put up a form to add a record. This class lets you specify the above with a bunch of "rules". You don't have to worry about all the pages in your site having lots of custom logic. Instead, they all just specify rules. This also makes it easier for novice or teams of programmers to get great results. REASON #3 You don't have to use heavily nested full blown templating system. You get better separation of content and form because Result Class templates are different from any other template system you might happen to be using.