[ic] $ENV{QUERY_STRING} ?

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Ed LaFrance)]

At 01:39 PM 03/20/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Is there some way other than to loop through the $CGI hash to get the
>full query string for a page?  I need to record tags that are going to
>be passed to me and would prefer if the string stayed exactly the same
>as it was when the cart homepage was called.  So for instance, if they
>came in with:
>
>https://www.store.com/catalog?track1=foo&track2=bar&other=stuff
>
>I would want to store in a variable on the index page the string:
>
>track1=foo&track2=bar&other=stuff
>
>*not* something like:
>
>other=stuff&track2=bar&track1=foo
>
>The reasoning behind wanting to have it this way is fairly involved and
>not relevant to the problem, so I won't go into that unless someone asks
>me. ;-)
>
>Any suggestions?  I have already noticed that the $ENV{QUERY_STRING}
>variable is not set (or I can't seem to get to it) in a [calc] or a
>[perl] tag.  A [dump] shows the %ENV hash is there and has the
>$ENV{QUERY_STRING} set to the correct string, but there doesn't appear
>to be a way to get to them.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>-- orko

Try the [env] usertag I wrote some time ago; search the archives for 
'Usertag [env]' to find the code, I don't have it at my fingertips right now.

- Ed L.


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