Re: Setting post variables

On Mon, 2 May 2005, Joshua wrote:

> On Monday 02 May 2005 6:29, Albert Lash wrote:
> > Hi Joshua,
> >
> > Remember your suggestion to set query params using the php protocol?
> >
> > <param name="php:$_POST['from_date']" type="text"/>
> >
> > Now I need to set the variable in the case that nothing is currently
> > selected. Is it possible to set the post variable from the sitemap? I'm
> > checking out Path and there doesn't seem to be any set function.
>
> Not sure what you mean. Do you just want so have a value for
> $_POST['from_date'] if none selected?  besides the default param?
>
> Path doesn't set values - it just gets them. You can set them using flow of
> course or straight from php for things like session, globals etc.... all path
> is is a way for xml to get these otherwise hard to get vars

OK, so the <map:set... directive should use flow to set or add the var?
That makes sense. However, it dies when trying to add
anything other than a root node. I'll keep digging around

Al

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> > Thanks
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> > Al
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