Customizing WebDelivery.html
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numero = 18676
interpreted = N
texte = >>On a related matter, I took Bob Minor's suggestion, and others', of putting >>up a [cart].html file (created a page earlier with [copyfile]) with a meta >>refresh so they have a Wait while your card is being processed type of >>page. But I don't get how to pass along the variables that I need on the >>refreshed page that adds them to the paid members database. By the time the >>above bolluxed-up new [cart].html appears, the variables are gone. > >Mine retains the info, you have to watch the redirection that you use, >you will have to pass all the variables manually. In my case I just >passed the cart # and pulled the rest out of a temp.db database based on >the cart info. Which webserver are you using?Thanks, Bob. I figured out that the special fields WebMerchant understands get interpreted and then written directly to the html file. Using Header fields, I passed values manually, as you say.However, there's a problem with the [append] context I have on the webdelivery page. I use the [append] to add the info to the final members.db, then a [delete] tag afterwards to delete it from a pendingMembers.db. The [delete]tag works fine. WebMerchant is misbehaving toward [append][/append].Here's the code from the webdelivery.html file that WebMerchant takes, fools with, and spits out as the [cart].html file, whose code follows:=====webdelivery.html: [append db=/fdusers/fdusers.db]fdID=[Header1][/append] [delete db=/fdusers/fdusersPending.db&eqfdIDdatarq=[Header1]]=====[cart].html: [db]fdID=29824116034361[/append] [delete db=/fdusers/fdusersPending.db&eqfdIDdatarq=29824116034361]=====And the browser displays: [db]fdID=29824116034361Error: Error: expected [/HTMLFORM], but found [/append] [delete db=/fdusers/fdusersPending.db&eqfdIDdatarq=29824116034361]There are no [] brackets whatsoever before this, only normal html, and no opening form tags.=====My fix: I finally got it to work by using Header5 and Header6 fields for [raw][append db=/fdusers/fdusers.db][/raw] and [raw][/append][/raw] respectively in the preceding template, so it looks like this [Header5]fdID=[Header1][Header6]...and that works. But it seems like a bad workaround. Is there something wrong with the way I had it in the first place, or is append illegal going into WebMer? I'm using a Mac and WebStar3.I think this may have been the hardest part of my project...Thanks, Terry WilsonTerry Wilson terryw@rainbowcreek.com
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>>On a related matter, I took Bob Minor's suggestion, and others', of putting >>up a
[cart].html file (created a page earlier with
[copyfile]) with a meta >>refresh so they have a Wait while your card is being processed type of >>page. But I don't get how to pass along the variables that I need on the >>refreshed page that adds them to the paid members database. By the time the >>above bolluxed-up new
[cart].html appears, the variables are gone. > >Mine retains the info, you have to watch the redirection that you use, >you will have to pass all the variables manually. In my case I just >passed the cart # and pulled the rest out of a temp.db database based on >the cart info. Which webserver are you using?Thanks, Bob. I figured out that the special fields WebMerchant understands get interpreted and then written directly to the html file. Using Header fields, I passed values manually, as you say.However, there's a problem with the
[append] context I have on the webdelivery page. I use the
[append] to add the info to the final members.db, then a
[delete] tag afterwards to delete it from a pendingMembers.db. The
[delete]tag works fine. WebMerchant is misbehaving toward
[append][/append].Here's the code from the webdelivery.html file that WebMerchant takes, fools with, and spits out as the
[cart].html file, whose code follows:=====webdelivery.html: [append db=/fdusers/fdusers.db]fdID=[Header1][/append] [delete db=/fdusers/fdusersPending.db&eqfdIDdatarq=[Header1]]=====
[cart].html: [db]fdID=29824116034361[/append] [delete db=/fdusers/fdusersPending.db&eqfdIDdatarq=29824116034361]=====And the browser displays: [db]fdID=29824116034361Error: Error: expected [/HTMLFORM], but found [/append] [delete db=/fdusers/fdusersPending.db&eqfdIDdatarq=29824116034361]There are no [] brackets whatsoever before this, only normal html, and no opening form tags.=====My fix: I finally got it to work by using Header5 and Header6 fields for
[raw][append db=/fdusers/fdusers.db][/raw] and
[raw][/append][/raw] respectively in the preceding template, so it looks like this [Header5]fdID=[Header1][Header6]...and that works. But it seems like a bad workaround. Is there something wrong with the way I had it in the first place, or is append illegal going into WebMer? I'm using a Mac and WebStar3.I think this may have been the hardest part of my project...Thanks, Terry WilsonTerry Wilson terryw@rainbowcreek.com
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