Re: MiniVend 3.12 very close to release (finally)

[KWells <kwells@nolacom.com>]

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 CookieLogin directive allows you to set a cookie with the
      username and password of a user for auto-login.

DOES the cookie login also keep track of a user's persnal info like shipping
address
so that they wont have to type this in everytime they make a purchase?

mikeh@minivend.com wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from mikeh@minivend.com     ******
>
> Dear All,
>
> I have finally done what I think are the final changes to MiniVend
> 3.12. The minivend-3.12beta13 that is up can be considered to be a
> pre-release.
>
> If you reported a bug that had a version number attached to the report
> then I have probably fixed it.
>
> If you made a nebulous report, perhaps even one with a "diff", but
> didn't include the exact version information, then it may not have
> gotten in. (There were several of these, and I am afraid I just don't
> have time to conduct an elucidating Q&A. I fixed a couple but was unable
> to determine applicability of a few.)
>
> Things which have been added since the intial beta announcement:
>
>     * CookieLogin directive allows you to set a cookie with the
>       username and password of a user for auto-login.
>
>     * [set-cookie name value expire] and [read-cookie name] tags added.
>
>     * Added a feature I have been thinking about for a long time --
>       form-linked page refs. If you want to order an item with configurable
>       size/color by a link, you can now do:
>
>         [page form="
>                 mv_order_item=99-102
>                 mv_order_size=L
>                 mv_order_quantity=1
>                 mv_separate_items=1
>                 mv_todo=refresh"] Order t-shirt in Large size </A>
>
>       It was so simple to add I don't know why I didn't before now.
>
>       You must have TolerateGet set (which is now the default) and
>       all normal MiniVend form caveats apply -- you must have an action,
>       you must supply a page if you don't want to go to the default,
>       etc.
>
>       You can theoretically submit any form with this; it is best
>       if none of the included values have newlines. You can also
>       use it for submitting foreign forms if you like; it will
>       not touch the href if it begins with http:, ftp:, or the
>       like.
>
>       The [area ...] tag works the same way, though the deprecated
>       [pagetarget ....] and [areatarget ...] were left out.
>
>     * Added support for file upload/download. A demonstration is
>       included in the simple demo.
>
>     * Totally removed support for the old Msql.pm module. If you
>       still use this, use an older version or update to DBI.
>
>     * You can set an UPPERCASE parameter in the Database directive:
>
>         Database   products   UPPERCASE  1
>
>       You want to apply this to SQL only.
>
>       This allows lowercase field references in [item-field column]
>       and [item-data table column] (and sql- and loop- too). This
>       should make it easier to get things working with Oracle
>       and other DBs which won't return a lowercase field name for
>       fetchrow_hashref. Note that this is not used in [item-param
>       field] where you should know what the name is.
>
>     * There is an [if-param name] and [if-sql-param name] tag
>       ala [if-field ...] and [if-data ...].
>
>     * Added a [value-extended ...] tag which allows access to
>       the array values of a form variable.
>
>     * Added a Storable interface selectable at software
>       configuration time. If Storable is installed, and the
>       file _db_storable is present in the MiniVend software root,
>       (or the environment variable MINIVEND_STORABLE_DB is true)
>       then Storable will be used not only for sessions but for
>       all GDBM and DB_File storage. THIS BREAKS EXISTING CATALOGS.
>       If you want to use Storable only for sessions, just set
>       the environment variable $ENV{MINIVEND_STORABLE} to 1 as usual.
>       You can also create a _session_storable file in the MiniVend root.
>
>     * Verified the DBI interface to work with DBD::XBase (subject
>       to the usual limitations like fieldname length), which
>       allows XBASE/DBF files to be used directly.
>
>     * Added a perhaps more convenient Locale language facility,
>       which looks like:
>
>         [LC] This is the default text
>                 [de_DE] Text for de_DE locale [/de_DE]
>                 [en_US] Text for en_US locale [/en_US]
>                 [fr_FR] Text for fr_FR locale [/fr_FR]
>         [/LC]
>
> --
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