Re: Setting Cart value
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texte = I stand corrected. I only assumed that once a [cart] was established on a page that it could not be changed by establishing it as a math or text variable but I have just verified that the [cart] value can be changed, even within an orderfile context. But it would not be changeable if the cart was passed in from a form or url.Mike> All of our pages include the CartCookie.inc file. Anytime a cart value > needs to be used it is listed as cart=[cartfromcookie] (usually as a > form value). It means that very few of our pages contain any command > line options, and I hope to use POST forms for everything I can at some > point. It makes for a very clean looking site; see > > http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com > http://www.univpress.com > http://www.scarecrowpress.com > > for examples of the power of WebCat. All of those sites are exactly > the same code (except for some site specific sections like What's New). > Only with WebCat could I run multiple sites using exactly the same > templates. > > John Peacock > > Mike Davis wrote: >> >> The problem is that Mark was trying to set a variable named CART, and not >> cartfromcookie. I don't think you can change that value on the page. Using >> your message would require using showifs in links and forms to make sure you >> were passing the right cart value out of that page. >> >> Mike >> >>> Don't use [Math] for anything you are not going to perform math on, and >>> not just for things that look like numbers. You will be sorry, maybe >>> not right away, but at some time you will. >>> >>> That being said, what you have below should work (we are doing the same >>> thing). This is our CartCookie.inc file (remove linebreaks when using): >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Mark Derrick wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> we're looking to be able to set the [cart] value by pulling it from a >>>> previously set cookie. >>>> Tried using [math show=f]cart=[GETCOOKIE cookiecart][/math] but no luck, >>>> any >>>> pointers? >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> Mark. >>>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >>> the mailing list
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I stand corrected. I only assumed that once a [cart] was established on a page that it could not be changed by establishing it as a math or text variable but I have just verified that the [cart] value can be changed, even within an orderfile context. But it would not be changeable if the cart was passed in from a form or url.Mike> All of our pages include the CartCookie.inc file. Anytime a cart value > needs to be used it is listed as cart=[cartfromcookie] (usually as a > form value). It means that very few of our pages contain any command > line options, and I hope to use POST forms for everything I can at some > point. It makes for a very clean looking site; see > > http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com > http://www.univpress.com > http://www.scarecrowpress.com > > for examples of the power of WebCat. All of those sites are exactly > the same code (except for some site specific sections like What's New). > Only with WebCat could I run multiple sites using exactly the same > templates. > > John Peacock > > Mike Davis wrote: >> >> The problem is that Mark was trying to set a variable named CART, and not >> cartfromcookie. I don't think you can change that value on the page. Using >> your message would require using showifs in links and forms to make sure you >> were passing the right cart value out of that page. >> >> Mike >> >>> Don't use [math] for anything you are not going to perform math on, and >>> not just for things that look like numbers. You will be sorry, maybe >>> not right away, but at some time you will. >>> >>> That being said, what you have below should work (we are doing the same >>> thing). This is our CartCookie.inc file (remove linebreaks when using): >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Mark Derrick wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> we're looking to be able to set the [cart] value by pulling it from a >>>> previously set cookie. >>>> Tried using [math show=f]cart=[GETCOOKIE cookiecart][/math] but no luck, >>>> any >>>> pointers? >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> Mark. >>>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> >>> Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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