Brian Hancock wrote:
I
should have jumped in and added this comment earlier,
if you have a browser with a _javascript_ console you can quickly and
accurately ESCAPE a query string.
Evaluate this is the _javascript_ Console
prompt("",escape("query string"))
Great tip, Brian. You don't even need a _javascript_ console to do this,
though. Just type
_javascript_:escape(prompt("What would you like escaped?",""))
into the address bar of any _javascript_-capable browser,
and press ENTER. Type your text into the resulting dialog box, and then
copy the escaped text from the resulting "web page."
You can bookmark it and put it on your browser's quick-links toolbar,
too.
Notice that I've re-jiggered what you did so that the
text-to-be-escaped is typed into the dialog box, rather than having it
inside double-quotes in the _javascript_ code. This has two advantages:
you don't have to escape any double-quote characters in your text, and
it works better as a bookmark that way.
==========
Brian is very web-savvy, so he probably already knew all that but just
didn't think of applying it to this problem. But those of you who don't
already know about it, you might find the following explanation
interesting.
_javascript_: is just another protocol many browsers support in
addition to http: and ftp: and about:blank.
I probably shouldn't have said it works in "any _javascript_-capable
browser", however. Although it works as I've presented it in every
version of Internet Explorer and
Mozilla/Firefox that I've ever tried, it requires a lot more overhead
to get it to work in Mac OS Safari. I can't speak for any other
browsers.
What follows the _javascript_: is any _javascript_ _expression_.
When you "go" to that URL, the browser runs the _javascript_ code, and
the resulting value is rendered as a web page. You can actually test
small snippets of HTML that
way. For example,
_javascript_:"<html><body><h1>Wow!</h1>Who
knew I could write <small>small</small> web pages in my
<em>address bar</em>?!</body></html>"
You can also use it as simple calculator. Quick, what's the area of a
circle with a radius of 3.5 cm? Well, pi times r squared, of course:
_javascript_:Math.PI * Math.pow(3.5, 2)
=thom
"The problem with cats is that they get the exact same
look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer."
--Paula Poundstone
eg
prompt("",escape(" http://www.blogs.com/my silly website/What the
$%^&!!.html "))
You can Copy Ctrl-C the escaped url from the prompt box.
Similarly you can unescape( ) an escaped string.
Regards
Brian
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Dunn"
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Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 6:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Catenating rv's
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=114446
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="" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sanbachs.net/cgi-bin/count/countr.cgi?Name=URLv0158&Refer=ht">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=""
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]]On 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
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