[ic] Images instead of Form submit buttons

Zachary Matthews zac@mediapc.com
Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:41:08 -0800


I thought Interchange handled session ids automatically depending upon 
whether the browser accepts (and returns) cookies.  Is this not true?

> This sounds like you are missing a line like
>
> <input type=hidden name=mv_session_id value="[data session id]">
>
> in your form page. Have a look at your session id. If the session id is
> changing after every submitting of your form page, your page has no
> input tag with "name=mv_session_id".
>
> Joachim
>
> On 20 Nov, Zachary Matthews wrote:
>> This seems strange, but it works when cookies are enabled, and fails
>> when cookies are not enabled....  Netscape has been doing some other ve
>> strange things which I will try to document later....
>>
>>
>>
>>> I know the button tag depends on Javascript. Is javascript enabled in your
>>> Netscape?
>>>
>>> I just tested with Netscape v4.7 on Windows and had no problems.
>>>
>>> Cameron
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: interchange-users-admin@minivend.com
>>> [mailto:interchange-users-admin@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Zachary
>>> Matthews
>>> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 3:25 PM
>>> To: interchange-users@minivend.com
>>> Subject: Re: [ic] Images instead of Form submit buttons
>>>
>>>
>>> Cameron,
>>>
>>> I haven't checked this out on the PC, but on the MAC, this works only
>>> with IE.  It fails to set mv_nextpage when using Netscape on the MAC.
>>> Any other ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>> Well, here's one from a working catalog:
>>>>
>>>> <FORM ACTION="[process secure=1]" METHOD=POST name="login">
>>>> <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=mv_click VALUE=Login>
>>>> <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=mv_todo  VALUE=return>
>>>> <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=mv_nextpage VALUE="account">
>>>>
>>>>  [button
>>>>         text="Log In"
>>>>         src="navigation/loginswirl.gif"
>>>>         width="78"
>>>>         height="32"
>>>>         hidetext=1
>>>>         form=login
>>>>         ]
>>>>         [if session logged_in]
>>>>         mv_nextpage=account
>>>>         [else]
>>>>         mv_nextpage=login
>>>>         [/else]
>>>>         [/if]
>>>>     [/button]
>>>>
>>>> So your E was very close. The only thing I can think of is your form
>>> wasn't
>>>> named "logform"...
>>>>
>>>> Cameron
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