Re: SET Variable

[Marius Schaefer <webmaster@bpaserver.net>]

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Hi Larry,

Larry Leszczynski wrote:

> Hello Marius -
>
> > I wanna create a new variable using
> >
> > [set new_var]
> > [value VAR]
> > [/set]
>
> There are two types of variables, scratch variables and session variables.
>
> You can set a scratch variable like so:
>    [set VAR]100[/set]
> and access in a page with
>    [scratch VAR]
>
> You can also do it with Perl:
>    [perl scratch] $Safe{'scratch'}{'VAR'} = 100; ''; [/perl]
>                                                  ^^^
>                                                  the return value of the
>                                                  perl routine is displayed
>                                                  on the page, so use this
>                                                  to make it return blank

This works ([value VAR] = 100):

[perl arg=scratch interpolate=1]
 $Safe{'scratch'}{'new_var'} = '[value VAR]';
[/perl]

Then I can access
[scratch new_var]
with the return of "100".


> Likewise for session variables:
>    [perl values] $Safe{'values'}{'VAR'} = 100; ''; [/perl]
> and access in a page with
>    [value VAR]
>
> Make sure you do
>    [set mv_put_session]Yes[/set]
> someplace so that variables you set will stick around from page to page.
>
> Larry Leszczynski
> larryl@furph.com
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