Re: Reload adding to cart
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It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 39217
interpreted = N
texte = Thanks John! I've been working on something similar to this and it is good to hear some validation. I really don't like the Idea of a redirect but If I want the shopping cart on the same page as my search/results I can't think of any other way to do it.Maurice gave me some ideas about using a flag to validate against but my seemingly feeble mind :-) can't seem to come up with the answer.Last night I dug into the docs a little and decided I need to dig in a little further. ;-> One question I have.... Can one use globabl tags ([showif etc.]) in a Orderfile>Lineitems context? I wrote something that was supposed to check the cart and place a flag depending on if an item was already in there or not but it didn't work. Can someone give an example of this? thx.John Peacock wrote:> [snip] > > This is a user stupid, please replace sort of issue. Unless you do > all of your adding to carts in a context (where you can decide whether > they have already added this item), you are stuck. When a page is > reloaded, the browser (as you have discovered) submits EXACTLY the same > variables as previously. > > One thing you can do is have the target of the add be an intermediary > page which contains only a redirect to the actual shopping cart page. > That way, the variables are submitted to a page and then stripped off > by the redirect. Here is the flow: > > SearchPage ---submit---> AddMePage ---redirect--->ShoppingCart > > No amount of hitting refresh on the ShoppingCart page will have any > effect, since the form variables will be eaten by AddMePage. > > If you are clever, you can even have the ShoppingCart page redirect > to itself, which we do since Netscape doesn't always display the initial > > -- > John Peacock > Director of Information Research and Technology > Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group > 4720 Boston Way > Lanham, MD 20706 > 301-459-3366 x.5010 > fax 301-429-5747 > >-- Donovan D. Brooke Systems Administrator/ Assc. Art Director Epsen Hillmer Graphics I know I'm making progress when I look at the questions I have asked in the past and think to myself... how stupid was that ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Thanks John! I've been working on something similar to this and it is good to hear some validation. I really don't like the Idea of a redirect but If I want the shopping cart on the same page as my search/results I can't think of any other way to do it.Maurice gave me some ideas about using a flag to validate against but my seemingly feeble mind :-) can't seem to come up with the answer.Last night I dug into the docs a little and decided I need to dig in a little further. ;-> One question I have.... Can one use globabl tags ([showif etc.]) in a Orderfile>Lineitems context? I wrote something that was supposed to check the cart and place a flag depending on if an item was already in there or not but it didn't work. Can someone give an example of this? thx.John Peacock wrote:> [snip] > > This is a user stupid, please replace sort of issue. Unless you do > all of your adding to carts in a context (where you can decide whether > they have already added this item), you are stuck. When a page is > reloaded, the browser (as you have discovered) submits EXACTLY the same > variables as previously. > > One thing you can do is have the target of the add be an intermediary > page which contains only a redirect to the actual shopping cart page. > That way, the variables are submitted to a page and then stripped off > by the redirect. Here is the flow: > > SearchPage ---submit---> AddMePage ---redirect--->ShoppingCart > > No amount of hitting refresh on the ShoppingCart page will have any > effect, since the form variables will be eaten by AddMePage. > > If you are clever, you can even have the ShoppingCart page redirect > to itself, which we do since Netscape doesn't always display the initial > > -- > John Peacock > Director of Information Research and Technology > Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group > 4720 Boston Way > Lanham, MD 20706 > 301-459-3366 x.5010 > fax 301-429-5747 > >-- Donovan D. Brooke Systems Administrator/ Assc. Art Director Epsen Hillmer Graphics I know I'm making progress when I look at the questions I have asked in the past and think to myself... how stupid was that ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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