On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 12:41, jwsacksteder@ramprecision.com wrote:
I'm quite sure how I should be thinking about this.
I have a page creates a report based on parameters that are in the URL. This is important because the user must be able to bookmark the location with the parameters included. For the sake of this example let's say the url looks like this- http://www.myserver.com/news/index_html?UID=11234;skin=modern
You may want to re-write that querystring as ?UID=11234&skin=modern
I need to then pass all four values into a dtml method for validation, then into a zsql method. Unfortunately 'UID' and 'skin' are only in the namespace of the initial page, thus this doesn't work.
To re-state, you have two dtml methods, my_report and my_report_maker. The user calls my_report with arguments, specifies additional data in a form and my_report_maker does the heavy lifting. Use something like this for my_report: ------- <dtml-if form_submitted> <dtml-var "my_report_maker(REQUEST)"> <dtml-else> <form method=post action=my_report> <input type=hidden name=form_submitted value=1> <input type=hidden name=UID value=<dtml-var UID>> <input type=hidden name=skin value=<dtml-var skin>> Other Variable A <input type=text name=other_a><BR> Other Variable B <input type=text name=other_b><BR> <input type=submit value="Create Report"> </form> </dtml-if> ------- Now my_report_maker will have use of all required names and users will be able to bookmark the intermediate step where they had two of the four arguments defined. HTH, Dylan