Name

page — produce a hypertext link

ATTRIBUTES

Attribute Pos. Req. Default Description
Standard options       See options for tag [area].
extra     None. Name of a CSS class to insert as class=....
interpolate     0 interpolate output?
hide     0 Hide the tag return value?

DESCRIPTION

The [page] tag expands to a proper hypertext URL link which preserves Interchange session information and arguments passed onto the targeted page or form action. The target page argument you supply is treated relatively to the pages/ directory inside your catalog root directory (CATROOT).

The enclosing <a href=""></a> HTML tag is included. Where this is unwanted, use [area].

Besides just producing hypertext links to specific pages, you can also "embed" complete HTML forms in the target link (for say, one-click ordering or searches); see the section called “EXAMPLES”.

BEHAVIOR

This tag does not appear to be affected by, or affect, the rest of Interchange.

EXAMPLES

Example: Produce the basic hypertext link

Add the following to an Interchange page:

Please visit our [page index]Welcome</a> page.

Example: Pass arguments onto the target page

Add the following link to an Interchange page:

Visit the [page href='test' arg='arg1=value1/arg2=value2']test</a> page.

The relevant part of your test.html page could then look like this:

<p>This is a test page.</p>

[if session arg]
<p>You have passed an argument onto this page:</p>
<p>[data session arg]</p>
[else]
You did not pass any arguments to this page.
[/else]
[/if]

<p>Have a nice day!</p>


Example: Simple item ordering using the page tag

Order a [page order TK112]Toaster</a> today.

Example: Embedding HTML forms in the page tag

[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>

Or another example:

[page form="
  mv_todo=refresh
  mv_order_item=000101
  mv_order_fly=description=An on-the-fly item|price=100.01
"]Order item 000101</a>

Which is equivalent to the usual HTML form:

<form action="[area process]" method="post">
  <input type='hidden' name='mv_todo' value="refresh">
  <input type='hidden' name='mv_order_item' value="000101">
  Qty: <input size='2' name='mv_order_quantity' value="1">
  <input type='hidden' name='mv_order_fly' value="description=An on-the-fly item|price=100.00">
  <input type='submit' value="Order button">
</form>

Example: Implementing searches using href=/arg= options

[page scan
    se=Impressionists
    sf=category]
Search for Impressionist Paintings</a>

Or the equivalent, using named parameters and more understandable quoting:

[page href=scan
    arg="se=Impressionists
         sf=category"]
Search for Impressionist Paintings</a>

If the arg parameter is set, it will be available within the search display page as [value mv_arg].


Example: Implementing searches using search= option

The search attribute is a shorthand for the href / arg scheme. When search is used, href will be set to scan and arg to the value of search .

[page search="
    se=Impressionists
    sf=category"]
Search for Impressionist Paintings</a>

NOTES

The [page] tag examples use some advanced argument-quoting concepts. To minimize confusion, please see the proper and complete quoting explanation in the ITL glossary entry.

Since the [page] already includes an opening HTML link (the "<a href=...>" part), the only thing left is to close it using "</a>" after typing in the link text. There is a [/page] macro in existence, but it translates directly to </a> — which means typing </a> directly saves parser a little work. The use of this macro is discouraged and you should always insert "</a>" directly.

AVAILABILITY

page is available in Interchange versions:

4.6.0-5.9.0 (git-head)

SOURCE

Interchange 5.9.0:

Source: code/SystemTag/page.coretag
Lines: 16


# Copyright 2002-2007 Interchange Development Group and others
# 
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.  See the LICENSE file for details.
# 
# $Id: page.coretag,v 1.4 2007-03-30 23:40:49 pajamian Exp $

UserTag page                Order        href arg
UserTag page                addAttr
UserTag page                attrAlias    base arg
UserTag page                Implicit     secure secure
UserTag page                PosNumber    2
UserTag page                version      $Revision: 1.4 $
UserTag page                MapRoutine   Vend::Interpolate::tag_page

Source: lib/Vend/Interpolate.pm
Lines: 2685

sub tag_page {
  my ($page, $arg, $opt) = @_;

my $url = tag_area(@_);

my $extra;
if($extra = ($opt ||= {})->{extra} || '') {
  $extra =~ s/^(\w+)$/class=$1/;
  $extra = " $extra";
}
  return qq{<a href="$url"$extra>};
}

Source: lib/Vend/Interpolate.pm
Lines: 2685

sub tag_page {
  my ($page, $arg, $opt) = @_;

my $url = tag_area(@_);

my $extra;
if($extra = ($opt ||= {})->{extra} || '') {
  $extra =~ s/^(\w+)$/class=$1/;
  $extra = " $extra";
}
  return qq{<a href="$url"$extra>};
}

AUTHORS

Interchange Development Group

SEE ALSO

area(7ic), order(7ic)

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