RE: Discounting prices across a site

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 13551
interpreted = N
texte = Gil ->Question: I am now charged with offering price discounts to visitors >that come from certain sites. I have alredy set up a >[refsite]=TheReferringSite type of thing that will be carried throughout >every link on my site, so I can determine when to offer the discount. >I am now attempting to use [hideIf] and [showIf] to deduct 10% from the >prices for these visitors, which is working. But, do I have to do this >on every single page that displays a price, or is there an easier way to >globally change the price once and have it apply to every page on which >the price appears?If you already have a price formula in your formulas.db, you could just use a [lookup] tag on formulas.db every time you want to display the price. Alternatively, make a separate file that has your [hideif] and [showif] code and use the [include] tag to insert this code everywhere you need to display the price.Hope this helps,Marc Eagle StarNine Technologies http://www.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. RE: Discounting prices across a site (Marc Eagle 1997)
Gil ->Question: I am now charged with offering price discounts to visitors >that come from certain sites. I have alredy set up a >[refsite]=TheReferringSite type of thing that will be carried throughout >every link on my site, so I can determine when to offer the discount. >I am now attempting to use [hideif] and [showif] to deduct 10% from the >prices for these visitors, which is working. But, do I have to do this >on every single page that displays a price, or is there an easier way to >globally change the price once and have it apply to every page on which >the price appears?If you already have a price formula in your formulas.db, you could just use a [lookup] tag on formulas.db every time you want to display the price. Alternatively, make a separate file that has your [hideif] and [showif] code and use the [include] tag to insert this code everywhere you need to display the price.Hope this helps,Marc Eagle StarNine Technologies http://www.smithmicro.com/ Marc Eagle

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