I would only recommend if you *know* the terms will always be in the same order.
That's the kicker, I think: I can't come up with a reasonable simple way to force the string's elements to follow a pattern, not with human operators at the other end.
The goal here is to make searchable pairings, but knowing we're talking about pairings that run the entire gamut, it's not going to be as easy as just A+B and C+D and E+F ... so the potential combinations are really massive, massive, massive. Pre-coding that into a select box would make for a huge scrolling list to pick from, but doing it as "pick one from each column" would be a nightmare on the backend instead, it seems.
Oh, well. Guess this means I'm going to have to go with preset pairing-options, if I want to keep any consistency in things. Fffftt. WP is great in some ways, but in other ways it's just not set up for what I'm trying to do. It will do it, though, but it's really pushing the edges of my skill level. (Which isn't a bad thing, but still, I do have other stuff I need to do this week!)
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Date: 13 Apr 2009 03:55 pm (UTC)That's the kicker, I think: I can't come up with a reasonable simple way to force the string's elements to follow a pattern, not with human operators at the other end.
The goal here is to make searchable pairings, but knowing we're talking about pairings that run the entire gamut, it's not going to be as easy as just A+B and C+D and E+F ... so the potential combinations are really massive, massive, massive. Pre-coding that into a select box would make for a huge scrolling list to pick from, but doing it as "pick one from each column" would be a nightmare on the backend instead, it seems.
Oh, well. Guess this means I'm going to have to go with preset pairing-options, if I want to keep any consistency in things. Fffftt. WP is great in some ways, but in other ways it's just not set up for what I'm trying to do. It will do it, though, but it's really pushing the edges of my skill level. (Which isn't a bad thing, but still, I do have other stuff I need to do this week!)