PHPR Search Panel on _list.php?

I ran into something this evening using v5.2 of PHPRunner’s IDE / Code Generator that has me puzzled a bit.  I have already brought it to Xlinesoft’s attention to inquire about the issue but haven’t heard back, and I have posted a message on the message board related to the issue as well.   What is the issue?  Well, it has to do w/ a way that I learned to code certain things in PHPRunner and I will be the first to go on record as saying that if there is one thing I have learned in life it is that “my way isn’t always the right way!” 

I am pretty confident that the issue also has something to do w/ the new search panel in PHPR but I can’t be for certain though.  Here’s what’s happening…  Typically if I wanted to go to a table list page and place a URL link on a particular {$value} to be called in through a search on another list page I would just do something like this in the visual editor code view: (which is just a standard link URL w/ a value in it from the table.

<A href="http://www.arcb.net/referrals_database/business_directory_list.php?a=search&value=1&SearchFor={$row.1business_state_value}&SearchOption=Contains&SearchField=business_state">{$row.1business_state_value}</A>

Okay, well I tried doing this on my clients update project a few times and it kept messing up w/ me, I went back and checked my URL’s to make sure everything was correct w/ the syntax, etc., and couldn’t ever find out why my links kept breaking or didn’t form correctly.  Well, long story short, here’s how I fixed the problem for now…  Inside the Visual Editor I setup the value I was using to “view as” a hyperlink.  Then I went into the hyperlink settings itself and put this in to define which list I wanted to search for my {$value} from.

state_associations_list.php?a=search&value=1&SearchOption=Equals&SearchFor=

I set this up as the URL prefix and told the Visual Editor to “Display Field Content” for the Value.  Sure enough this worked, but what happened to make the old style of link building I was used to doing on the fly?  I bet that it has something to do w/ the advanced search feature we just added.  I am looking forward to hearing back from Sergey or Jane regarding the issue.  I sure am glad that I wasn’t working on one of my Real Estate Clients database about the time I figured out my _list.php pages weren’t working anymore.

Now, if you should go this route for any reason here’s what you do.  You just use the above line of code as your “hyperlink prefix” but be sure to swap out the “state_associations_list.php? w/ whatever list page you want to use.  It should look something like the last box above when you paste it in…

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