Re: Referrer field to header field conversion
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1997
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 15745
interpreted = N
texte = >A while ago I asked how to take the initial referrer of a visitor to my web>site and put this info in their shopping cart for later reference. I got>some excellent suggestions, but I still can't seem to make it work. The>problem is the visitor comes to an entry page, then clicks the big pretty>graphic to actually enter the site, in the process doing a search, and>generating a cart value. ( I now realise that this isn't required, as you>can do embedded searches (which I do), and generate cart numbers later, but>anyway...) I want to add the Header30=[referrer] tag, something like this...>
href=Search.tmpl$search?Header30=[url][referrer][/url]&cart=[cart]&db=mypro>d.txt&geSKU=0>>This doesn't work, because you apparently can't add info to a cart value>(after all it only exists as a number in a URL)This wouldn't add anything to the cart anyways, all you're doing hereis a search ...>so then I tried...>>which creates a cart file, doesn't append the referrer into it, and will>cause a problem if anybody uses the back button after shopping for a while>to get back to the search screen!You're still doing a search. You cannot add values to the shoppingcart file when you do a search, you have to do one thing at a time... so you actually have to perform a commerce function such as $addto give you what you want.Try adding the referrer value with an $add command instead of a$search command ...>What I need is a $create? command to create a shopping cart file so I can>play with the headers without adding any line items.$add does this the first time it's invoked with a new cart value ... :)Sincerely,Ken Gromeken@iav.com808-737-6499WebDNA Solutionshttp://www.hui.net/
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>A while ago I asked how to take the initial referrer of a visitor to my web>site and put this info in their shopping cart for later reference. I got>some excellent suggestions, but I still can't seem to make it work. The>problem is the visitor comes to an entry page, then clicks the big pretty>graphic to actually enter the site, in the process doing a search, and>generating a cart value. ( I now realise that this isn't required, as you>can do embedded searches (which I do), and generate cart numbers later, but>anyway...) I want to add the Header30=
[referrer] tag, something like this...>
href=Search.tmpl$search?Header30=[url][referrer][/url]&cart=
[cart]&db=mypro>d.txt&geSKU=0>>This doesn't work, because you apparently can't add info to a cart value>(after all it only exists as a number in a URL)This wouldn't add anything to the cart anyways, all you're doing hereis a search ...>so then I tried...>
[url][referrer][/url]&cart=
[cart]>>which creates a cart file, doesn't append the referrer into it, and will>cause a problem if anybody uses the back button after shopping for a while>to get back to the search screen!You're still doing a search. You cannot add values to the shoppingcart file when you do a search, you have to do one thing at a time... so you actually have to perform a commerce function such as $addto give you what you want.Try adding the referrer value with an $add command instead of a$search command ...>What I need is a $create? command to create a shopping cart file so I can>play with the headers without adding any line items.$add does this the first time it's invoked with a new cart value ... :)Sincerely,Ken Gromeken@iav.com808-737-6499WebDNA Solutionshttp://www.hui.net/
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