[REBOL] How does one persist data? Re:

[cybarite]

For storing the post or get data, I added a key and a timestamp and stored
the name=value pairs on a file (%journal.txt).  Then I could use the same
approach for fields whether they came from the journal for a previous post
or a new record from a user

 write/append %journal.txt reduce [
  {confirmation-number=}
  confirmation-number
  "&timestamp="
  now
  "&status=new"
  "&"
  system/options/cgi/query-string
  newline
  ]

When I wanted to look it up in another script,

 requests: read/lines %journal.txt


Find the requests that matches the confirmation-number or other criteria
and instantiate a cgi object using the same approach:


 selected-query-string: pick requests some-key  ; some-key is used to pick
off one of the journal entries

 data-record-object: make object! [  ;-- Default form values.
  status: "None"
  timestamp: "None"
  confirmation-number: "None"
  name-last: "No name entered"
  name-first: "Not entered"
  card-number: "Not entered"
  special-instructions: "None entered"
  customer-request: "None entered"
  email: "None entered"
  refer-to: "None specified"
  special-instructions: "None"
 ]


 record-object: make data-record-object decode-cgi-query
selected-query-string


Now use the record-object data in your script such as record-object/status

Worked for me!