Re: Referrer field to header field conversion
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1997
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 15745
interpreted = N
texte = >A while ago I asked how to take the initial referrer of a visitor to my web >site and put this info in their shopping cart for later reference. I got >some excellent suggestions, but I still can't seem to make it work. The >problem is the visitor comes to an entry page, then clicks the big pretty >graphic to actually enter the site, in the process doing a search, and >generating a cart value. ( I now realise that this isn't required, as you >can do embedded searches (which I do), and generate cart numbers later, but >anyway...) I want to add the Header30=[referrer] tag, something like this... >
href=Search.tmpl$search?Header30=[url][referrer][/url]&cart=[cart]&db=mypro >d.txt&geSKU=0> >This doesn't work, because you apparently can't add info to a cart value >(after all it only exists as a number in a URL)This wouldn't add anything to the cart anyways, all you're doing here is a search ...>so then I tried... > >which creates a cart file, doesn't append the referrer into it, and will >cause a problem if anybody uses the back button after shopping for a while >to get back to the search screen!You're still doing a search. You cannot add values to the shopping cart file when you do a search, you have to do one thing at a time ... so you actually have to perform a commerce function such as $add to give you what you want.Try adding the referrer value with an $add command instead of a $search command ... >What I need is a $create? command to create a shopping cart file so I can >play with the headers without adding any line items.$add does this the first time it's invoked with a new cart value ... :)Sincerely, Ken Grome ken@iav.com 808-737-6499 WebDNA Solutions http://www.hui.net/
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>A while ago I asked how to take the initial referrer of a visitor to my web >site and put this info in their shopping cart for later reference. I got >some excellent suggestions, but I still can't seem to make it work. The >problem is the visitor comes to an entry page, then clicks the big pretty >graphic to actually enter the site, in the process doing a search, and >generating a cart value. ( I now realise that this isn't required, as you >can do embedded searches (which I do), and generate cart numbers later, but >anyway...) I want to add the Header30=
[referrer] tag, something like this... >
href=Search.tmpl$search?Header30=[url][referrer][/url]&cart=
[cart]&db=mypro >d.txt&geSKU=0> >This doesn't work, because you apparently can't add info to a cart value >(after all it only exists as a number in a URL)This wouldn't add anything to the cart anyways, all you're doing here is a search ...>so then I tried... >
[url][referrer][/url]&cart=
[cart]> >which creates a cart file, doesn't append the referrer into it, and will >cause a problem if anybody uses the back button after shopping for a while >to get back to the search screen!You're still doing a search. You cannot add values to the shopping cart file when you do a search, you have to do one thing at a time ... so you actually have to perform a commerce function such as $add to give you what you want.Try adding the referrer value with an $add command instead of a $search command ... >What I need is a $create? command to create a shopping cart file so I can >play with the headers without adding any line items.$add does this the first time it's invoked with a new cart value ... :)Sincerely, Ken Grome ken@iav.com 808-737-6499 WebDNA Solutions http://www.hui.net/
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