Re: [date] for today's date, while inside old order file

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 18148
interpreted = N
texte = At 9:36 AM -0800 6/9/98, Sandra L. Pitner is rumored to have typed: > I'm working on some store administration pages. One thing I'm perplexed > about is how to get today's date stored to a datatable being appended > when I'm inside an orderfile context. [date] is interpreted as the > shopping cart field [date]. Is there a way to force a value of today's > date for my datatable appending? I want to record when this appending > action is taking place, which is not related to the date of the order. > > I need to be inside the [orderfile] context for the other fields being > appended.I would pass the date into a MATH variable at the top of the page.e.g. [MATH SHOW=F]D={[DATE]}[/MATH] ...Then call up the variable anywhere that you want today's date.MichaelMichael Winston *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com Internet Coordinator *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/ Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By fax!: 503/654/9440 Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: [date] for today's date, while inside old order file (Michael Winston 1998)
  2. Re: [date] for today's date, while inside old order file (Sandra L. Pitner 1998)
  3. [date] for today's date, while inside old order file (Sandra L. Pitner 1998)
At 9:36 AM -0800 6/9/98, Sandra L. Pitner is rumored to have typed: > I'm working on some store administration pages. One thing I'm perplexed > about is how to get today's date stored to a datatable being appended > when I'm inside an orderfile context. [date] is interpreted as the > shopping cart field [date]. Is there a way to force a value of today's > date for my datatable appending? I want to record when this appending > action is taking place, which is not related to the date of the order. > > I need to be inside the [orderfile] context for the other fields being > appended.I would pass the date into a MATH variable at the top of the page.e.g. [MATH SHOW=F]D={[date]}[/MATH] ...Then call up the variable anywhere that you want today's date.MichaelMichael Winston *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com Internet Coordinator *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/ Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By fax!: 503/654/9440 Michael Winston

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