[ic] Manually setting $Config->{ProductFiles}

[Mike Heins]

Quoting John Allman (allmanj at houseofireland.com):
> Hi - i was hoping to do something very similar to that described in 
> http://www.icdevgroup.org/pipermail/interchange-users/2000-October/001364.html 
> but unfortunately it appears that the issue got sidetracked in subsequent 
> posts.
> 
> I want to normally have only one table, products. But if a certain 
> condition is met i want interchange to also start reading from another 
> table.
> 
> I have a piece of perl code which, if the condition is met, overrides 
> $Config->{ProductFiles}
> 
> i manually set @{$Config->{ProductFiles}} = ("products","newproducts");
> 
> i can then confirm that $Config->{ProductFiles}[0] is products and 
> $Config->{ProductFiles}[1] is newproducts. Before that 
> $Config->{ProductFiles}[1] is unset and $Config->{ProductFiles}[0] is 
> products.
> 
> In order to get this down to as simple a situation as possible i put a 
> perl block with @{$Config->{ProductFiles}} = ("products","newproducts"); 
> at the start of flypage.html (no condition checking, it just overrides 
> it regardless) and then tried to directly access the product page of  a 
> product which only exists in newproducts. This didn't work.
> 
> What am i missing? Is it possible to override ProductFiles like this? 
> What else should i be doing?

It is not possible in embedded Perl. If you set it then went global and
called Vend::Data::update_productbase(), it would take effect.

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Mike Heins
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