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Re: Next Record / Previous Record

Subject: Re: Next Record / Previous Record
From: GArlington
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:51:53 -0800 PST
Newsgroups: macromedia.coldfusion.advanced_techniques

On Jan 20, 6:22 pm, "davella" <webforumsu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I created a message board time system where a user can click a message and 
> once
> view the message has the option to click next or previous message to move
> directly to the next or previous message.  I was using a pagination setup at
> first but essentially all it was doing was increasing or decreasing the 
> current
> #ID# by 1.  The one I was using was found in Ben Fortas book "Web Application
> constriction Kit Fifth Edition" This does not work however because in certain
> circumstances the following message could have been deleted.  I changed the
> code a bit because I kept confusing myself but here it is...
>
>  <cfquery name="GetMessage"....>
>  SELECT * FROM Messages
>  Where id=#URL.ID#
>  </cfquery>
>  <a href="#CurrentPage#?id#URL.ID#-1=">Previous Message</a>
>
>  <a href="#CurrentPage#?id#URL.ID#+1=">Next Message</a>
>
>  As you can see, the code only changes the id by 1, which means if your 
> viewing
> message 40 and 41 is deleted, when you click next message it will go to the
> deleted message  (message 41)  and not Message 42.  So my question is, is 
> there
> a Mysql trick that will allow me to go directly to the next available record,
> skipping any deleted non existing records?  How did you guys handle this in
> different circumstances?

Try
<cfquery name="GetMessage"....>
SELECT * FROM Messages
Where id >= #URL.ID#
</cfquery>
BTW: <cfqueryparam .../> is a very good feature...

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