[ic] User-based Alternate Page Set?

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Thomas J.M. Burton (tom at globalfocusdm.com):
> Hello IC Users,
> 
> I'm wondering if there's a simple way to have a catalog use a set of
> pages from a different directory on a per-user basis? Something like
> having pages from an alt_pages directory served based on IP or username,
> rather than pages from the default pages directory.
> 
> I need to be able to test new pages for a site upgrade and with this
> particular catalog, I'd rather not set up a clone staging copy (for
> reasons I won't go into right now). The catalog is running on IC version
> 5.4.2.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Just set $Config->{PreviewDir} in an autoload routine. In catalog.cfg:

    Sub set_preview <<EOS
    sub {
	    $Session->{preview} ||= $CGI->{tmp_preview};
	    return unless $Session->{preview};
	    $Config->{PreviewDir} = 'newpages';
    }
    EOS
    Autoload set_preview

Now the first time you access the site with a CGI parameter of
tmp_preview=1, the "newpages" directory will be looked at first
for any pages.

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