[ic] Stupid trick: mixing PHP/Interchange

[John Beima]

> Hello list,
> 
> URLs processed by interchange are prepended the root of the store, and 
> appended with .html. For example, if we specify 
> 
> 	page_to_call.php 
> 
> we do not always want interchange to call
> 
> 	http://hostname/cgi-bin/store/page_to_call.php.html
> 
> The following stupid trick provides a workaround: we can tell IC to link to
> 
> 
> 	../../store/page_to_call.php?phpdummy=x
> 
> which IC will translate to
> 
> 	http://hostname/store/page_to_call.php?phpdummy=x.html
> 
> Note that this might not be the most secure way to call the php page. If 
> anyone has a prettier way to do this, please reply to this list.

Yes the simplier way is to just not use the area tag. If you setup your own tags
like this:

<A HREF="http:__SERVER_NAME__/page_to_call.php">Page To Call</A>

Interchange will leave it alone.

You can even pass the session number by changing it to:

<A HREF="http:__SERVER_NAME__/page_to_call.php?mv_session_id=[data session
id]&">Page To Call</A>

You will just have to maintain the session variable yourself, since you are not
runnig that page through the Interchange server.


John Beima
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> 
> grtz
> MRJB
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