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Getting value of field in current record

Jan 17, 2001, 5:52 PM
msmoore
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Jan 17, 2001, 5:52 PM
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Getting value of field in current record
I have three databases which are somewhat relational. In one, people can record activity or exercise performed during the day and, in another, I have it pulling the total amount of time spent in exercise for that date into a food journal. Only problem is, I have it pulling for "today"...if a person enters an activity journal and a food journal on 1/15 then updates or modifies the food journal on 1/16, the activity time no longer defaults in because that journal entry's date no longer equals "today".

This is the subroutine in db.cgi:
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sub get_activity {
#-------------------------------------------------------------
#
my ($act, $today, @data);

my $username_q = $DBH->quote($db_userid);
my $today = $DBH->quote(&get_date());

$query = qq!
SELECT * FROM Activity
WHERE UserID = $username_q AND
Date = $today
!;
my $sth = $DBH->prepare ($query) or &cgierr("Unable to query database. Reason: $DBI::errstr. Query: $query");
$sth->execute or &cgierr("Unable to query database. Reason: $DBI::errstr. Query: $query");


if ($sth->rows) {
while (@data = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
$act = $data[28];
}
}

$sth->finish;
return $act;
}
Then, in the html.pl file, in sub html_record_form, I have the following:

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my (%rec) = @_;
($db_auto_generate and print &build_html_record_form(%rec) and return);
$rec{eActivity} = &get_activity;
I have tried various and sundry forms of $in{'Date'} (which is the field I'm trying to grab a value from) with no success.

What it seems like I need this to do is define the value of the Date field of the current record (if I'm modifying) and search the activity journal for a match OR, if there's no value, search the activity journal for a match on "today" (because the new record hasn't yet been added, therefore the field has no value yet).

Am I missing something? Is there an easier way to do this? And how do I obtain the value of a field in a current record?

I'd appreciate any help on this...I'm getting some complaints from folks that their data is disappearing. Thanks!

Melanie
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Subject Author Views Date
Thread Getting value of field in current record msmoore 2542 Jan 17, 2001, 5:52 PM
Post Re: Getting value of field in current record 		msmoore 2436 Jan 18, 2001, 4:33 PM