Re: populating a table from multiple cookies

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2005


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 62018
interpreted = N
texte = Unless I'm missing something, if you are already storing the info in cookies, why make a table to retrieve them? Use listwords to separate them in your sidebar, inside a five-cycle loop. Last viewed
[loop start=1&end=5] [ListWords Words=[getcookie LastViewed[index]]&Delimiters=|] [text]field[index]=[word][/text][/ListWords] Last viewed
[field2]
[field3], [hideif [field4]=][field4], [/hideif][field5]
[/loop] When you write your cookies: lastviewed5's newvalue = lastviewed4 lastviewed4's newvalue = lastviewed3 lastviewed3's newvalue = lastviewed2 lastviewed2's newvalue = lastviewed1 lastviewed1's newvalue = current view info Terry >Trying to do a 'last xx items viewed' on a sidebar on my >site. I want to sort them in proper order based on which >was viewed most recently. To this end, I am setting 5 >cookies named LastView1 through LastView5. I then want to >store the contents of the cookies in a table. The cookies >have multiple values seperated by a pipe | hence the >listwords below. -- Terry Wilson | terry@terryfic.com | http://terryfic.com http://WhosComing.com - a simplified, affordable online reservation system http://WhosBringingWhat.com - online potluck signup sheet -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- 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://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: populating a table from multiple cookies ( Terry Wilson 2005)
  2. populating a table from multiple cookies ( "my eLists" 2005)
Unless I'm missing something, if you are already storing the info in cookies, why make a table to retrieve them? Use listwords to separate them in your sidebar, inside a five-cycle loop. Last viewed
[loop start=1&end=5] [ListWords Words=[getcookie LastViewed[index]]&Delimiters=|] [text]field[index]=[word][/text][/ListWords] Last viewed
[field2]
[field3], [hideif [field4]=][field4], [/hideif][field5]
[/loop] When you write your cookies: lastviewed5's newvalue = lastviewed4 lastviewed4's newvalue = lastviewed3 lastviewed3's newvalue = lastviewed2 lastviewed2's newvalue = lastviewed1 lastviewed1's newvalue = current view info Terry >Trying to do a 'last xx items viewed' on a sidebar on my >site. I want to sort them in proper order based on which >was viewed most recently. To this end, I am setting 5 >cookies named LastView1 through LastView5. I then want to >store the contents of the cookies in a table. The cookies >have multiple values seperated by a pipe | hence the >listwords below. -- Terry Wilson | terry@terryfic.com | http://terryfic.com http://WhosComing.com - a simplified, affordable online reservation system http://WhosBringingWhat.com - online potluck signup sheet -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- 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://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Terry Wilson

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