Re: Determining [page] attributes

["Rob Zimmerman" <rob@readysite.net>]

******    message to minivend-users from "Rob Zimmerman" <rob@readysite.net>     ******

I am just curious as to this issue, I suggested a static html solution but the 
answer laid in a perl subroutine. My question or comment, In this case would 
it not be more efficient to use static html whenever possible. Especially for 
the small to medium sites or even just redoing the demo store? 

Thanks
Rob
--------

> ******    message to minivend-users from mikeh@minivend.com     ******
> 
> Quoting August Detlefsen (augustd@idiom.com):
> > 
> > I want to include a standard set of header and footer html in a site (ie for
> > the buttons and common graphical elements) using the [include] tag. Is there
> > a way for elements of the header and footer to know what page they are
> > embedded on? For example, so the 'Search' button will be disabled when the
> > header is included on srchform.html.
> > 
> 
> I had been meaning to do this one for a long time, so I put it in
> minivend.cfg for the 3.12 demo:
> 
> UserTag bar-button Order page current
> UserTag bar-button PosNumber 2
> UserTag bar-button HasEndTag 1
> UserTag bar-button Routine   <<EOR
> sub {
> 	use strict;
> 	my ($page, $current, $html) = @_;
> 	$current = $Global::Variable->{MV_PAGE}
> 		if ! $current;
> 	$html =~ s:\[selected\]([\000-\377]*?)\[/selected]::ig;
> 	my $alt = $1;
> 	return $html if $page ne $current;
> 	return $alt;
> }
> EOR
> 
> This is called with something like:
> 
> 			[bar-button srchform]
> 				<A HREF="[area srchform]">Power Search</A>
> 			[selected]
> 				<B>Power Search</B>
> 			[/selected]
> 			[/bar-button]<BR>
> 
> Perhaps even more interestingly:
> 
> 			[bar-button page=Renaissance
> 						current="[value mv_searchspec]"]
>     	        <A HREF="[area scan
> 								di=category
> 								df=yes
> 								dl=Renaissance
> 							]">Renaissance</A>
> 			[selected]
> 						<B>Renaissance</B>
> 			[/selected]
> 			[/bar-button]
> 
> This last one solves the real problem that would be difficult
> to solve with static HTML; doing it dynamically based on a search.
> 
> It will be in the next beta upload, probably this weekend sometime; but
> if you want it sooner it is all right here. Did I ever mention that
> I think UserTag is pretty powerful? Thanks to Perl, that is. 8-)
> 
> -- 
> Mike Heins                          http://www.minivend.com/  ___ 
>                                     Internet Robotics        |_ _|____
>                                     131 Willow Lane, Floor 2  | ||  _ \
> It's a little-known fact            Oxford, OH  45056         | || |_) |
> that the Y1K problem caused         <mikeh@minivend.com>     |___|  _ <
> the Dark Ages. -- unknown           513.523.7621 FAX 7501        |_| \_\
> -
> To unsubscribe from the list, DO NOT REPLY to this message.  Instead, send
> email with 'UNSUBSCRIBE minivend-users' in the body to Majordomo@minivend.com.
> Archive of past messages: http://www.minivend.com/minivend/minivend-list
> 


-
To unsubscribe from the list, DO NOT REPLY to this message.  Instead, send
email with 'UNSUBSCRIBE minivend-users' in the body to Majordomo@minivend.com.
Archive of past messages: http://www.minivend.com/minivend/minivend-list