Re: BreadCrumb Trails
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2001
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 37565
interpreted = N
texte = Sherrise E Johnson wrote: > > I can best describe a Cookiecrumb Trail by showing you one in use.. > Take yahoo.com for example... > http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Finance_and_Investme > nt/Chats_and_Forums/How about storing the directory path in one of the shopping cart header fields and then using the [cart] to retrieve it again. You could even store the actual HTML for the display.Or create a database, with fields of (cart, sequence, link) and store each link in a single record. Then, to display it, do a search on the db (sorted by sequence) and build the display up record by record.OR, have all of your files hierarchically arranged by directory and then use [listwords words=[thisurl]&delimiters=\] to split out the levels the user has visited. You will probably want to have the human readable version of the link stored in a table (use [LookUp] for a quick search). Then build up the links level by level as you display them.TMTOWTDIJohn -- 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------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Sherrise E Johnson wrote: > > I can best describe a Cookiecrumb Trail by showing you one in use.. > Take yahoo.com for example... > http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Finance_and_Investme > nt/Chats_and_Forums/How about storing the directory path in one of the shopping cart header fields and then using the [cart] to retrieve it again. You could even store the actual HTML for the display.Or create a database, with fields of (cart, sequence, link) and store each link in a single record. Then, to display it, do a search on the db (sorted by sequence) and build the display up record by record.OR, have all of your files hierarchically arranged by directory and then use [listwords words=[thisurl]&delimiters=\] to split out the levels the user has visited. You will probably want to have the human readable version of the link stored in a table (use [lookup] for a quick search). Then build up the links level by level as you display them.TMTOWTDIJohn -- 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------------------------------------------------------------- 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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