Re: Trigger action Quandry
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2002
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Whenever I have problems with triggers (or spawns) I put in code to write info out to a debugging log. In this case, I'd add something like:[appendfile file=debug.txt&secure=F][date] [time] [thisurl](showif [hour]\2)[/appendfile]... right before the [showif...Then I could examine the log to see what's up.- brianAt 10:56 AM 6/6/02, Bob Minor wrote:>I have a page that when hit by a human browser it works fine, but if its hit>with a trigger it doesn't. Specifically I run the script every hour, if the>hour is divisible by 2 then it runs the containing code if not then it>should not. Instead it runs every hour regartless. Here is the code from the>page.>>Database Backup>> [math show=f]filecount=0[/math]> [text secure=F]dayfolder=[date %a][/text]> [math show=f]hour=[date %H][/math]>>[showif [hour]\2]>>[ListFiles path=../databases/]>[hideif [filename]^(]>[showif [filename]^.db]>>[filename]
>[math show=T]filecount=filecount+1[/math]>[text secure=F&show=T]backupfile[filecount]=[filename][/text]>[hideif [filename]^archives][commitdatabase>../databases/[filename]][/hideif]>> >[/showif]>[/hideif]>[/Listfiles]>>>[dos]>cd ..\..\..\Medlawplus.com\wwwroot\databases\>mkdir D:\backup\[dayfolder]\[date %H]>mkdir D:\backup\[dayfolder]\[date %H]\[Date %y-%m-%d]>[loop start=1&end=[filecount]]copy>[interpret][backupfile[index]][/interpret] D:\backup\[dayfolder]\[date>%H]\[interpret][backupfile[index]][/interpret]>[/loop]>[/dos]>>[appendfile action.log][date] [time] [date %H]>[math]{[date]}[/math].[math]{[time]}[/math] backup databases[loop>start=1&end=[filecount]]> copy [interpret][backupfile[index]][/interpret]>D:\backup\[dayfolder]\[date>%H]\[interpret][backupfile[index]][/interpret][/loop]>[/appendfile]>>[/showif]>>>Robert Minor>Director of Internet Services>------------------------------------------------------------>Cybermill Communications>http://www.cybermill.com http://www.merchantmaker.com>>Providing Ecommerce and interactive website development and>hosting services on Macintosh, Windows NT, Unix, and AS/400.>>All your websites are belong to us!>>>------------------------------------------------------------->This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list
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Whenever I have problems with triggers (or spawns) I put in code to write info out to a debugging log. In this case, I'd add something like:[appendfile file=debug.txt&secure=F][date] [time] [thisurl](showif [hour]\2)[/appendfile]... right before the [showif...Then I could examine the log to see what's up.- brianAt 10:56 AM 6/6/02, Bob Minor wrote:>I have a page that when hit by a human browser it works fine, but if its hit>with a trigger it doesn't. Specifically I run the script every hour, if the>hour is divisible by 2 then it runs the containing code if not then it>should not. Instead it runs every hour regartless. Here is the code from the>page.>>Database backup>> [math show=f]filecount=0[/math]> [text secure=F]dayfolder=[date %a][/text]> [math show=f]hour=[date %H][/math]>>[showif [hour]\2]>>[ListFiles path=../databases/]>[hideif [filename]^(]>[showif [filename]^.db]>>[filename]
>[math show=T]filecount=filecount+1[/math]>[text secure=F&show=T]backupfile[filecount]=[filename][/text]>[hideif [filename]^archives][commitdatabase>../databases/[filename]][/hideif]>> >[/showif]>[/hideif]>[/Listfiles]>>>[DOS]>cd ..\..\..\Medlawplus.com\wwwroot\databases\>mkdir D:\backup\[dayfolder]\[date %H]>mkdir D:\backup\[dayfolder]\[date %H]\[Date %y-%m-%d]>[loop start=1&end=[filecount]]copy>[interpret][backupfile[index]][/interpret] D:\backup\[dayfolder]\[date>%H]\[interpret][backupfile[index]][/interpret]>[/loop]>[/dos]>>[appendfile action.log][date] [time] [date %H]>[math]{[date]}[/math].[math]{[time]}[/math] backup databases[loop>start=1&end=[filecount]]> copy [interpret][backupfile[index]][/interpret]>D:\backup\[dayfolder]\[date>%H]\[interpret][backupfile[index]][/interpret][/loop]>[/appendfile]>>[/showif]>>>Robert Minor>Director of Internet Services>------------------------------------------------------------>Cybermill Communications>http://www.cybermill.com http://www.merchantmaker.com>>Providing Ecommerce and interactive website development and>hosting services on Macintosh, Windows NT, Unix, and AS/400.>>All your websites are belong to us!>>>------------------------------------------------------------->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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