Re: [thisurl] or another way
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2000
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 29181
interpreted = N
texte = on 3/16/2000 2:47 AM, Nitai at nitai@eyework.net wrote:> I need on each page the exact url position. For this purpose I have used > [thisurl] on a macos server machine. This is fine because it returns me > blabla.tpl and so I can add ?test+[test] or whatever variable. > > BUT..on my MacOS X Server machine [thisurl] returns me the whole path. Thus > I can't use it. I understand that this is a bug. > > Ok, so what to do? I really need to have the current template available > somehow in a link. [referrer] does not work because I will need to change a > variable which is already in the link passed from the previous page. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Here's what I am converting all my [thisURL] contexts to. I doing this on MacOS servers because I don't like to display the complete path to my documents in the form action (using Welcome it triggers too many rtemp.welcome hits), but it should also be an ideal solution to the unix file path problem with [thisURL]. Set the text variable at the top of the page like this: [listwords words=[thisURL]&delimiters=/][text]thisPage=[word][/text][/listwords] Then use [thisPage] in place of [thisURL] in your page.Mike ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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on 3/16/2000 2:47 AM, Nitai at nitai@eyework.net wrote:> I need on each page the exact url position. For this purpose I have used > [thisurl] on a macos server machine. This is fine because it returns me > blabla.tpl and so I can add ?test+[test] or whatever variable. > > BUT..on my MacOS X Server machine [thisurl] returns me the whole path. Thus > I can't use it. I understand that this is a bug. > > Ok, so what to do? I really need to have the current template available > somehow in a link. [referrer] does not work because I will need to change a > variable which is already in the link passed from the previous page. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Here's what I am converting all my [thisurl] contexts to. I doing this on MacOS servers because I don't like to display the complete path to my documents in the form action (using Welcome it triggers too many rtemp.welcome hits), but it should also be an ideal solution to the unix file path problem with [thisurl]. Set the text variable at the top of the page like this: [listwords words=[thisurl]&delimiters=/][text]thisPage=[word][/text][/listwords] Then use [thisPage] in place of [thisurl] in your page.Mike ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to
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