Re: [mv] Variable Not Working Right. HELP!

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

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At 12:21 PM 3/7/00 -0700, you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from John Beima 
><jbeima@palb.com>     ******
>
>G'Day Ed,
>
>Actually I hadn't even thought of this way. I was just
>going to define it as a variable and insert it the same
>way you do the logobar, leftside, and menubars.
>
>I was banging my head against the wall and didn't even
>think of the include.
>
>However I treid it and it does work either. It doesn't
>seem to find my file, and since the docs don't say what
>directory the file should be placed in, I am just using
>the "pages" directory. Ah well I am off to play with it
>some more.

You jostled my memory a bit more - this tag works relative to the catalog 
directory, so to include a file from the pages directory:

[include file="pages/myfile.ext"]

Hope this helps!

- Ed L.


>Mega Thanks!
>
>John
>
>
>Quoting Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>:
>
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Ed LaFrance
> > <edlafrance@printexusa.com>     ******
> >
> > John -
> >
> > Ain't no big thing.  This is straight from the docs:
> >
> > -----
> >
> > [include ...]
> >
> > named: [include file=``name'']
> >
> > positional: [include file]
> >
> > AUTOINTERPOLATE: ALWAYS -- even Variable settings are
>interpolated.
> >
> > NOTE: New to MiniVend 3.04.
> >
> > Same as [file name] except interpolates for all
>MiniVend tags and
> > variables.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > The nice thing about [include] is that you don't have
>to restart the server
> >
> > to see any changes that you make in the included
>content!
> >
> > - Ed L.
> >
> >
> > At 03:57 AM 3/6/00 -0700, you wrote:
> > >******    message to minivend-users from John Beima
> > ><jbeima@palb.com>     ******
> > >
> > >G'Day Folks,
> > >
> > >I have just a quick question, to see if someone else
>has
> > >tried to do this.
> > >
> > >In the catalog config file you can add additional
> > >variables. Like the ones used to do the leftside,
> > >rightside, and menubar.
> > >
> > >Since the index, browse, browse1, and results pages
>all
> > >return the same item information, and only the flycat
> > >page differs. I wanted to create a variable
> > >"BASICRESULTS" which I could just update then cut the
> > >code out of the four files and put in a
> > >"__BASICRESULTS__" tag and just let it be inserted on
> > >the fly when a customer asks for it.
> > >
> > >Now here is the catch, Minivend puts the file in
> > >perfectly, however it doesn't expand the tags out in
>it.
> > >So what I wind up with is instead of the information
>on
> > >the item I just see a lot of [item-field ????]
>variable
> > >names.
> > >
> > >I just searched the manual and I can't find a tag
>that
> > >forces it to take a second look and replace the
> > >[item-field ?????] tags with the actual item data.
> > >
> > >Any ideas??
> > >
> > >John Beima
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