Re: Coding Technique

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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = You may have missed a discussion that has been going on as recently as yesterday on this list. Look for the subject line: Too many webcat comments. [WAS- Large founditems loops]There have been reports of this method causing problems.Mike> This is such a great idea, I have to tell you all. (Maybe it's all old hat.) > > Often times you need to use several lines of code to set a value. Like > this: > > [search db=admin/product.db&eqSKUdata=[theSKU]][founditems] > [text]thePrice=[price][/text] > [showif [qty]>[level2]][text]thePrice=[price2][/text][/showif] > [showif [qty]>[level3]][text]thePrice=[price3][/text][/showif] > [/founditems][/search][thePrice] > > The problem if this is in an include file and you do something like > > [text]finalPrice=[include priceCalc.tmpl][/text] > > All those Return characters get added to your value, messing up the > calculations. So what do you do? You take out the Returns, and you get > code that looks like this: > > [search db=admin/product.db&eqSKUdata=[theSKU]][founditems][text] > thePrice=[price][/text][showif [qty]>[level2]][text]thePrice=[pri > ce2][/text][/showif][showif [qty]>[level3]][text]thePrice=[price3 > ][/text][/showif][/founditems][/search][thePrice] > > (All on one line...) > > You can't read it very easily or debug it without adding the returns back > in. The solution is to use WebDNA comments! Then you get to keep the > readable code. You can also put in comments if you want! > > > [search db=admin/product.db&eqSKUdata=[theSKU]][founditems][!] > [/!][text]thePrice=[price][/text][!] This is the standard price > [/!][showif [qty]>[level2]][text]thePrice=[price2][/text][/showif][!] > [/!][showif [qty]>[level3]][text]thePrice=[price3][/text][/showif][!] > [/!][/founditems][/search][thePrice] > > or even line numbers.... > > [search db=admin/product.db&eqSKUdata=[theSKU]][founditems][!] > 1: [/!][text]thePrice=[price][/text][!] > 2: [/!][showif [qty]>[level2]][text]thePrice=[price2][/text][/showif][!] > 3: [/!][showif [qty]>[level3]][text]thePrice=[price3][/text][/showif][!] > [/!][/founditems][/search][thePrice] > > One of my employees came up with this while coding an export into a fixed > width format file. Now I use it all the time. Just make sure you match the > [!] with the [/!] > > > Phil Marshall ------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Coding Technique (Mike Davis 2000)
  2. Re: Coding Technique (Kenneth Grome 2000)
  3. Coding Technique (Phil Marshall 2000)
You may have missed a discussion that has been going on as recently as yesterday on this list. Look for the subject line: Too many webcat comments. [WAS- Large founditems loops]There have been reports of this method causing problems.Mike> This is such a great idea, I have to tell you all. (Maybe it's all old hat.) > > Often times you need to use several lines of code to set a value. Like > this: > > [search db=admin/product.db&eqSKUdata=[theSKU]][founditems] > [text]thePrice=[price][/text] > [showif [qty]>[level2]][text]thePrice=[price2][/text][/showif] > [showif [qty]>[level3]][text]thePrice=[price3][/text][/showif] > [/founditems][/search][thePrice] > > The problem if this is in an include file and you do something like > > [text]finalPrice=[include priceCalc.tmpl][/text] > > All those Return characters get added to your value, messing up the > calculations. So what do you do? You take out the Returns, and you get > code that looks like this: > > [search db=admin/product.db&eqSKUdata=[theSKU]][founditems][text] > thePrice=[price][/text][showif [qty]>[level2]][text]thePrice=[pri > ce2][/text][/showif][showif [qty]>[level3]][text]thePrice=[price3 > ][/text][/showif][/founditems][/search][thePrice] > > (All on one line...) > > You can't read it very easily or debug it without adding the returns back > in. The solution is to use WebDNA comments! Then you get to keep the > readable code. You can also put in comments if you want! > > > [search db=admin/product.db&eqSKUdata=[theSKU]][founditems][!] > [/!][text]thePrice=[price][/text][!] This is the standard price > [/!][showif [qty]>[level2]][text]thePrice=[price2][/text][/showif][!] > [/!][showif [qty]>[level3]][text]thePrice=[price3][/text][/showif][!] > [/!][/founditems][/search][thePrice] > > or even line numbers.... > > [search db=admin/product.db&eqSKUdata=[theSKU]][founditems][!] > 1: [/!][text]thePrice=[price][/text][!] > 2: [/!][showif [qty]>[level2]][text]thePrice=[price2][/text][/showif][!] > 3: [/!][showif [qty]>[level3]][text]thePrice=[price3][/text][/showif][!] > [/!][/founditems][/search][thePrice] > > One of my employees came up with this while coding an export into a fixed > width format file. Now I use it all the time. Just make sure you match the > [!] with the [/!] > > > Phil Marshall ------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ Mike Davis

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