Re: old cart file deletion
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2000
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 28729
interpreted = N
texte = >Could one of you seasoned webcat programmers doublecheck my code please?>I am on Unix and so need a workaround for the fact that webcat will not automagically>delete old shopping cart files, like it does on other platforms.>Micheal O Shea posted some cool code for this a while back to take care of all shopping>cart folder everywhere on the server, but I am not sys admin so must do my own locally.>>I am asking for someone to doublecheck me for 2 reasons:>1) So I don't accidentally delete wanted files>2) Because I haven't yet had experience with that feature/bug of webcat where you can't>accurately delete (files and/or? records) inside a [founditems]. I am so ignorant of this>issue that I don't know if it might come into play here (even though this is obviously not>within a [founditems].>>I want to delete all cart files that are more than 5 days old whenever this code is hit:>>[ListFiles ShoppingCarts]>[hideif 5>[Math show=T]({[date]}-{[CreateDate]})[/Math]]>[DELETEFILE file=[filename]]>[/hideif]>[/ListFiles]>>Thanks for your time!!1- Your listfiles folder name must be followed with a slash2- You don't need the parentheses, but I cannot imagine why they would hurt either.3- your path to the file needs to begin with ShoppingCartsHere, this is better:[ListFiles ShoppingCarts/][hideif 5>[Math show=T]{[date]}-{[CreateDate]}[/Math]][DELETEFILE file=ShoppingCarts/[filename]][/hideif][/ListFiles]================================Kenneth Grome, WebDNA Consultant808-737-6499 http://webdna.net================================-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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>Could one of you seasoned webcat programmers doublecheck my code please?>I am on Unix and so need a workaround for the fact that webcat will not automagically>delete old shopping cart files, like it does on other platforms.>Micheal O Shea posted some cool code for this a while back to take care of all shopping>cart folder everywhere on the server, but I am not sys admin so must do my own locally.>>I am asking for someone to doublecheck me for 2 reasons:>1) So I don't accidentally delete wanted files>2) Because I haven't yet had experience with that feature/bug of webcat where you can't>accurately delete (files and/or? records) inside a [founditems]. I am so ignorant of this>issue that I don't know if it might come into play here (even though this is obviously not>within a [founditems].>>I want to delete all cart files that are more than 5 days old whenever this code is hit:>>[ListFiles ShoppingCarts]>[hideif 5>[Math show=T]({[date]}-{[CreateDate]})[/Math]]>[DELETEFILE file=[filename]]>[/hideif]>[/ListFiles]>>Thanks for your time!!1- Your listfiles folder name must be followed with a slash2- You don't need the parentheses, but I cannot imagine why they would hurt either.3- your path to the file needs to begin with ShoppingCartsHere, this is better:[ListFiles ShoppingCarts/][hideif 5>[Math show=T]{[date]}-{[CreateDate]}[/Math]][DELETEFILE file=ShoppingCarts/[filename]][/hideif][/ListFiles]================================Kenneth Grome, WebDNA Consultant808-737-6499 http://webdna.net================================-------------------------------------------------------------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
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