Re: Forcing a NEWCART

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 13732
interpreted = N
texte = At 10:08 AM -0800 10/3/97, Grant Hulbert is rumored to have typed: > >I'm trying to find a simple solution for forcing a new cart number on > >someone if they come from a page *other* than dhorse.com. > > I assume the problem is other links jumping into the middle of your site. > > How about an [include] at the top of every page that does a check for >referrer^dhorse, and if not then show a message that says Thanks for >visiting, please enter through our front door?That would pretty much defeat the purpose of having our site indexed or asking people to bookmark certain pages.How about this method:Every template has a header in it that reads: [HIDEIF [REFERRER]^dhorse.com][/HIDEIF]Then, every HREF would read: The only thing that might screw this up is if the page is cached somewhere (like by AOL), but I think there's a META tag that can prevent that from happening.Does anyone see anything wrong with this process?MichaelMichael Winston *By Phone!: (503)/652/8815 x341 Internet Coordinator *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Forcing a NEWCART (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  2. Re: Forcing a NEWCART (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  3. Re: Forcing a NEWCART (Eddie Schrieffer 1997)
  4. Re: Forcing a NEWCART (Michael Winston 1997)
  5. Re: Forcing a NEWCART (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  6. Re: Forcing a NEWCART (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  7. Forcing a NEWCART (Michael Winston 1997)
At 10:08 AM -0800 10/3/97, Grant Hulbert is rumored to have typed: > >I'm trying to find a simple solution for forcing a new cart number on > >someone if they come from a page *other* than dhorse.com. > > I assume the problem is other links jumping into the middle of your site. > > How about an [include] at the top of every page that does a check for >referrer^dhorse, and if not then show a message that says Thanks for >visiting, please enter through our front door?That would pretty much defeat the purpose of having our site indexed or asking people to bookmark certain pages.How about this method:Every template has a header in it that reads: [HIDEIF [referrer]^dhorse.com][/HIDEIF]Then, every HREF would read: [referrer]^dhorse.com][cart][/SHOWIF][HIDEIF [referrer]^dhorse.com][math]NEWCART[/MATH][/HIDEIF]>The only thing that might screw this up is if the page is cached somewhere (like by AOL), but I think there's a META tag that can prevent that from happening.Does anyone see anything wrong with this process?MichaelMichael Winston *By Phone!: (503)/652/8815 x341 Internet Coordinator *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/ Michael Winston

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