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Re: MiniVend 3.12 very close to release (finally)



I'd have to assume that its still tied in with the UserDB functions... and that the cookie is just supplying the user name and password automatically. :-)

    Jason Korkin.
 

KWells wrote:

******    message to minivend-users from KWells <kwells@nolacom.com>     ******

 CookieLogin directive allows you to set a cookie with the
      username and password of a user for auto-login.

DOES the cookie login also keep track of a user's persnal info like shipping
address
so that they wont have to type this in everytime they make a purchase?

mikeh@minivend.com wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from mikeh@minivend.com     ******
>
> Dear All,
>
> I have finally done what I think are the final changes to MiniVend
> 3.12. The minivend-3.12beta13 that is up can be considered to be a
> pre-release.
>
> If you reported a bug that had a version number attached to the report
> then I have probably fixed it.
>
> If you made a nebulous report, perhaps even one with a "diff", but
> didn't include the exact version information, then it may not have
> gotten in. (There were several of these, and I am afraid I just don't
> have time to conduct an elucidating Q&A. I fixed a couple but was unable
> to determine applicability of a few.)
>
> Things which have been added since the intial beta announcement:
>
>     * CookieLogin directive allows you to set a cookie with the
>       username and password of a user for auto-login.
>
>     * [set-cookie name value expire] and [read-cookie name] tags added.
>
>     * Added a feature I have been thinking about for a long time --
>       form-linked page refs. If you want to order an item with configurable
>       size/color by a link, you can now do:
>
>         [page form="
>                 mv_order_item=99-102
>                 mv_order_size=L
>                 mv_order_quantity=1
>                 mv_separate_items=1
>                 mv_todo=refresh"] Order t-shirt in Large size </A>
>
>       It was so simple to add I don't know why I didn't before now.
>
>       You must have TolerateGet set (which is now the default) and
>       all normal MiniVend form caveats apply -- you must have an action,
>       you must supply a page if you don't want to go to the default,
>       etc.
>
>       You can theoretically submit any form with this; it is best
>       if none of the included values have newlines. You can also
>       use it for submitting foreign forms if you like; it will
>       not touch the href if it begins with http:, ftp:, or the
>       like.
>
>       The [area ...] tag works the same way, though the deprecated
>       [pagetarget ....] and [areatarget ...] were left out.
>
>     * Added support for file upload/download. A demonstration is
>       included in the simple demo.
>
>     * Totally removed support for the old Msql.pm module. If you
>       still use this, use an older version or update to DBI.
>
>     * You can set an UPPERCASE parameter in the Database directive:
>
>         Database   products   UPPERCASE  1
>
>       You want to apply this to SQL only.
>
>       This allows lowercase field references in [item-field column]
>       and [item-data table column] (and sql- and loop- too). This
>       should make it easier to get things working with Oracle
>       and other DBs which won't return a lowercase field name for
>       fetchrow_hashref. Note that this is not used in [item-param
>       field] where you should know what the name is.
>
>     * There is an [if-param name] and [if-sql-param name] tag
>       ala [if-field ...] and [if-data ...].
>
>     * Added a [value-extended ...] tag which allows access to
>       the array values of a form variable.
>
>     * Added a Storable interface selectable at software
>       configuration time. If Storable is installed, and the
>       file _db_storable is present in the MiniVend software root,
>       (or the environment variable MINIVEND_STORABLE_DB is true)
>       then Storable will be used not only for sessions but for
>       all GDBM and DB_File storage. THIS BREAKS EXISTING CATALOGS.
>       If you want to use Storable only for sessions, just set
>       the environment variable $ENV{MINIVEND_STORABLE} to 1 as usual.
>       You can also create a _session_storable file in the MiniVend root.
>
>     * Verified the DBI interface to work with DBD::XBase (subject
>       to the usual limitations like fieldname length), which
>       allows XBASE/DBF files to be used directly.
>
>     * Added a perhaps more convenient Locale language facility,
>       which looks like:
>
>         [LC] This is the default text
>                 [de_DE] Text for de_DE locale [/de_DE]
>                 [en_US] Text for en_US locale [/en_US]
>                 [fr_FR] Text for fr_FR locale [/fr_FR]
>         [/LC]
>
> --
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