Displaying Results -- Best Practice Question

[eluser]nate_02631[/eluser]
I'm not *quite* clear on what you're getting at, but I don't see any reason why you couldn't just loop through the options in the view. Plus, I think it's a good idea to keep display logic in the view, no matter how much of it there is (though I don't think you'd need a lot).

I might set up an array to match the unfriendly array keys of the options with friendlier names, then use that in your view:

Code:

$niceNames = array ('doc_ref_num' => 'Document/Ref. Number'... );

Then, in the view, you can loop through the array as normal and use the niceNames... and of course, simple logic to display the option if it even exists..

Code:

<? while (list($key, $value) = each ($option)): ?>
  &lt;?= $value ? '<p>'.$niceNames($key).': '.$value.'</p>' : '' ?&gt;
&lt;? endwhile ?&gt;

Which would display the option only if it were set... Of course, if you kept the key's quasi-friendly, like document_reference_number, you could use a simple helper to convert them to friendly names and ditch the $niceNames array altogether...

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