Re: Best Practice to Send Data to i

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Without much thought,  I recommend using a data structure array instead 
of an MODS. Coding is a smidgeon easier - certainly cleaner and easier 
for the future to understand.

HTH
Vern

On 2/15/2013 9:56 AM, Michael Ryan wrote:
> I need to send a bunch of data to the i using PHP. I'm reworking a 5250
> subfile program that presents a data entry subfile to the user. The user
> enters information into the subfile fields, presses enter, and the program
> then processes each entry in the subfile.
>
> I want to do this process in HTML and PHP. I'm thinking of displaying an
> HTML table and then processing each row when the user POSTs the data. I
> want to call a stored procedure to validate the data in each row.
>
> My first thought would be to send all the data to the stored procedure as a
> series of arrays, one for each column in the . The RPG developer (who will
> write the code that will become the stored procedure) is looking for
> basically a MODS as input. I want to keep the validation SP accessible from
> both RPG and PHP.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks!