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[ic] Re: Inelegant greeting...
Hello,
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:23:47AM +0000, Dave Barr wrote:
> I have been attempting to greet users who have set cookies at
> user-account creation time on their "entry" page to avoid confusion.
> To explain; the cookie will only "kick-in" on the second page that
> any user enters, during in-house testing this was the number one
dumb question perhaps, but in theory the user should send a cookie
the _first_ time he enters the shop, so you should be able to take
that cookie and look into the userdb to find him or her. I didn't
try this, but how do you come to the conclusion that you only
have the cookie on the second page access? I guess that you may
need to do the userdb lookup manually, though... Unfortunately
I don't grok JavaScript ...
> <!-- HIDE
> if (id != 'null') {
> //document.write("[data table=userdb column=fname key=\'"+id+"\']");
> document.write("Hi "+id+" welcome back to __COMPANY__.");
This stuff should imho be easily done by a [perl] section on the
title page, but this JavaScript piece should not work since this
is executed client-side (who has no notion of a userdb in the
first place).
> Also, the first document.write incorporating the read of the userdb
> table failed to work (with either plain ASCII being displayed or
> nothing at all), I seem to remember from the dim and distant past a
see above...
Best Regards,
--Toni++
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