RE: How do I handle CGI appended information?

["JR" <jr@mail.org>]

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Dear Frank

Thank you very much for this information - exactly what I needed. I found I
need to access it with [scratch design] as much as anything - hope that's
the right way! Anyway, just downloaded 3.12 so suppose I need to almost
start again!

Jerry.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Frank Miedreich
> Sent: 30 March 1999 16:08
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: Re: How do I handle CGI appended information?
>
>
> ******    message to minivend-users from Frank Miedreich
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> >******    message to minivend-users from "JR" <jr@mail.org>     ******
> >
> >Hi again
> >
> >Getting there now!
> >
> >Could anyone tell me how to sort this (to me major) problem out? If I can
> >sort this, then I will have an entirely virtual-page store from
> beginning to
> >end.
> >
> >I have one store, but it has to display pages for two different
> divisions of
> >a company. To open the front page as a single virtual page
> (front_page.html)
> >but with a different [body] for each company, I need to be able
> to pass some
> >sort of info in the initial calling string, like:
> >
> >http:www.mycompany.com/cgi-bin/store/front_page?first_company_design
> >
> >or
> >
> >http:www.mycompany.com/cgi-bin/store/front_page?second_company_design
> >
> >and then read that in the front_page.html to do and [if]
> first_company [body
> >1] [else] [body 2] [/else] [/if] sort of thing.
> >
> >Please could someone tell me how to do this with Minivend??
> >
> >Thanks again
> >
> >Jerry
> >
>
> If you come from outside minivend call the page with
> http://www.mycompany.com/cgi-bin/store/front_page?;second_company_design;
>
> inside mvend pages: [page href="frontpage" arg="first_company_design"]
>
> The variable is accessable from minivend via [data session arg].
>
> You could do:
> [if session arg]
> [set name="design" interpolate=1][data session arg][/set]
> [/if]
>
> at the top of your front_page and then display via
>
> [if type="value" term="design" op="eq" compare="first_company_design"]
> [then]
> first company things
> [/then]
> [else]
> second company things
> [/else]
> [/if]
>
> The variable design will be accessable on all subsequent pages,
> so you will
> not need to pass the argument again, until you change the division.
>
> If you need the info on the front-page only, you would of course not need
> to store the session arg in a value first.
>
> Depending on your situation, you might want to consider creating a
> subcatalog, otherwise you will get lots of really complicated if-then-else
> stuff.
>
> look at the docs for this. a new G3 PowerMac has entered my office. Yes!
>
>
> Cheers, Frank
>
> --
> Frank Miedreich
> Max-Planck-Institut fuer psychologische Forschung
>
>
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