Re: [WebDNA] hideif within a search

This WebDNA talk-list message is from

2009


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 103128
interpreted = N
texte = Donovan Brooke wrote: [snip] > Hi Rich, sure, hideif's and any other code are just fine in there... > however, you may benefit from the convention of setting a > tSearchCriteria variable as follows: [snip] In other words.. being a person that has worked on a lot of other sites over the years.. I've seen some pretty long and convoluted search strings that are dang near impossible to troubleshoot or read as-is because of massive use of showifs/hideifs/ifthens/etc.. The switch convention can make for easier troubleshooting... being that you can literally put: [tSearchCriteria] or in the page directly above the actual search. So that you can see exactly what is being fed to the search. Donovan -- Donovan Brooke WebDNA Software Corporation http://www.webdna.us **[Square Bracket Utopia]** Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: [WebDNA] hideif within a search (Terry Wilson 2009)
  2. Re: [WebDNA] hideif within a search (Donovan Brooke 2009)
  3. Re: [WebDNA] hideif within a search (Donovan Brooke 2009)
  4. Re: [WebDNA] hideif within a search ("Terry Wilson" 2009)
  5. Re: [WebDNA] hideif within a search (Donovan Brooke 2009)
  6. [WebDNA] hideif within a search (Rich Kwas 2009)
Donovan Brooke wrote: [snip] > Hi Rich, sure, hideif's and any other code are just fine in there... > however, you may benefit from the convention of setting a > tSearchCriteria variable as follows: [snip] In other words.. being a person that has worked on a lot of other sites over the years.. I've seen some pretty long and convoluted search strings that are dang near impossible to troubleshoot or read as-is because of massive use of showifs/hideifs/ifthens/etc.. The switch convention can make for easier troubleshooting... being that you can literally put: [tSearchCriteria] or in the page directly above the actual search. So that you can see exactly what is being fed to the search. Donovan -- Donovan Brooke WebDNA Software Corporation http://www.webdna.us **[Square Bracket Utopia]** Donovan Brooke

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