[rochester-pm-list] Quick One...

[Fred Edmister]

	Thanks Brian... I was told that the variable is a "session variable" that
stays with the browser untill it's closed... That part of the programming
is being done in Cold Fusion, I'll get with them and see where the variable
is held!  Thank you!

	Fred


	
At 05:55 PM 12/28/99 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Fred Edmister wrote:
>> 	Please forgive me in advance for this one... I'm done with my perl script,
>> and am debugging the form that sends the variable "store_id" through to the
>> script... In the begining stages, it was a hard coded <input type="hidden"
>> name="store_id" value="999999">  and now the variable is being sent as a
>> session variable... 
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>What do you mean by "session variable"?  A "session variable" is only a
>concept, there is no structure called "session variable" that exists
>separately from a regular variable.  There are only 2 ways for a form to
>send a variable to the server, through a form variable or a cookie.
>Figure out how the session variable is stored, and read the cookie or form
>var accordingly.  Then it should be simple. :)
>
>> Here's my question... The variable name is "storeid"
>> (purposly name differently from store_id as store_id is the variable in
>> perl, and didn't want to confuse the two...)  anyway, so <input
>> type="hidden" name="store_id" value="storeid"> needs to reflect the
>> variable... Does anyone have any ideas on what the value= line should say?
>> I tried value=%storeid%, $storeid, #storeid# and a few others... :(  I'm
>> not an html person, and was hoping someone may know... I tried to find an
>> HTML mailing list like this one, but couldn't... Thank you all in advance
>> for any assistance you may be able to provide!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 	Fred Edmister 	
>> 	PK Communications
>> 	CGI Web Developer
>> 	fedm at pkcommunications.com
>> 
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>Brian Mathis
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