Thanks Chris. Will try it and report outcome.
Regards, Tony -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christopher Dunn Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 11:43 AM To: DataPerfect Users Discussion Group Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Catenating rv's Oops, I meant this: http://www.sanbachs.net/cgi-bin/count/countr.cgi?Name=URLv0158&Refer=http%3A %2F%2Ftravel.ian.com%2Findex.jsp%3FpageName%3DhotInfo%26cid%3D131241%26hotel ID%3D114446 Christopher Dunn wrote: > My 2 cents, I think the 2nd url needs to be encoded as below, since > its a parameter of the first URL (and not part of it) > > http://www.sanbachs.net/cgi-bin/count/countr.cgi?Name=URLv0158&Refer=http%3A %2F%2Ftravel.ian.com%2Findex.jsp%3FpageName=hotInfo%26cid=131241%26hotelID=1 14446 > > > i.e., the following changes after the first ? > > : %3A > / %2F > = %3D > ? %3F > & %26 > > > Hope that helps > > > > Tony Perez wrote: >> Thanks, Ralph, for your prompt reply. >> >> I am trying to produce a link that counts a click-through from >> knowmexico.com to a vendor's website and land's our user on a hotel >> specific >> page on a hotel brand's website. >> >> rv20 is a text string that is Sanbachs.net count incrementor. Part of >> its >> mechanism has the "Name=" html function >> >> rv21 is the property's image file # (a GZZZ9 field) in our database >> which is >> needed to increment the click-through in a counting program Bruce >> Conrad has >> developed for our website. Using apply.format["GZZZ9";PxFx] produces >> a space >> in a 3 digit image file #. I've now changed it to >> apply.format["G9999";PxFx] >> which produces a 0 in front of a 3 digit image file #. This is >> consistent >> with Bruce's counting mechanism. >> >> rv22 is another text string >> >> rv23 is a field in our database that is the link to the hotel >> specific page >> on the hotel brand's website. In this case it also contains the >> "Name=" html >> function. >> >> rv24 catenates rv20, rv21, rv22 and rv23. >> >> It yields the following: >> >> <a >> href=http://www.sanbachs.net/cgi-bin/count/countr.cgi?Name=URLv0158&Refer=ht >> >> tp://travel.ian.com/index.jsp?pageName=hotInfo&cid=131241&hotelID=114446><b> >> >> <font color="navy">Check out special rates at</font> <img >> src="hclogo21.gif" >> width=210 height= 74 align=middle></b></a> >> >> The link breaks and does not recognize the text between >> "URLv0158&Refer=http://travel.ian.com/index.jsp?pageName=";. It never >> goes to >> the vendor's website. >> >> Any suggestions are very welcome. >> >> All the best, >> Tony >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ralph Alvy >> Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 8:19 PM >> To: DataPerfect Users Discussion Group >> Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Catenating rv's >> >> >> What are you trying to do? Example? >> >> On Tuesday 26 December 2006 20:10, Tony Perez wrote: >> >>> Hello all ... Happy Holidays ... >>> >>> I thought rv's could be catenated into an rv to output a text >>> string. Is >>> this correct? If so, I must be doing something wrong. Look forward to >>> comments. >>> >>> All the best, >>> Tony >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Dataperf mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dataperf mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dataperf mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
