Er ... uh... then I don't know.  My understanding is base.html is ignored,
of course my understanding could very well be false and misleading *heh*

Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Product Manager
Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Chvostek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: May 27, 2002 3:19 PM
> To: Charles Daminato
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: passing $action to %HTML in manage.cgi
>
>
>
> But Chuck...
>
> The idea is to have the javascript: link include the current $action.
>
> If print_form simply does a "$HTML->{ACTION} = $action;" some time
> before get_content is called, then {{ACTION}} inside *ANY* template
> file should be rewritten according to the value of the global variable
> $action, shouldn't it?  The get_content function doesn't discriminate.
>
> p
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:55:11PM -0400, Charles Daminato wrote:
> >
> > I believe the print_form doesn't do anything significant with
> base.html, and
> > if that's where you have the {{ACTION}} piece then it won't get
> parsed and
> > changed (I believe)
> >
> > Charles Daminato
> > OpenSRS Product Manager
> > Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > > Behalf Of Paul Chvostek
> > > Sent: May 27, 2002 2:43 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: passing $action to %HTML in manage.cgi
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm trying to add context sensitive help to manage.cgi, to go
> along with
> > > a number of other UI modifications I've made.
> > >
> > > The changes I've done include stuff added to
> templates/manage/base.html;
> > >
> > >  <script language="JavaScript">
> > >   function popuphelp(item) {
> > >    var helpwindow=window.open("/admin/popuphelp.php?item=" +
> > > item,"help","width=400,height=400,scrollbars=yes,dependent=yes");
> > >   }
> > >  </script>
> > > ... ... ...
> > >  <tr>
> > >   <td><table width="100%" border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr>
> > >    <td align=left bgcolor=d0d0d0 nowrap><font face="verdana,
> > > arial" size=1>&nbsp;{{TOP_NAVBAR}}</font></td>
> > >    <td align=right bgcolor=d0d0d0><a
> > > href="javascript:popuphelp('osrs/{{ACTION}}')">Help</a>&nbsp;</td>
> > >   </tr></table></td>
> > >  </tr>
> > >
> > > along with some changes to manage.cgi which are *supposed* to popupate
> > > $HTML{ACTION} with the value of $action.  But somewhere the variable
> > > content is getting lost, and I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.
> > > I have added:
> > >
> > >   $HTML->{ACTION} = $action;
> > >
> > > to manage.cgi's sub print_form.  The idea is that the content of the
> > > javascript popuphelp call will be populated by whatever
> section we happen
> > > to be in, allowing the help to be customized for the $action in play.
> > >
> > > I was thinking that since $action is defined globally, it should be
> > > available inside print_form.  What am I doing wrong?  Am I missing
> > > something critical about the way %HTML is supposed to work?
> > >
> > > This stuff lives at http://www.it.ca/domain/manage.cgi in case anyone
> > > wants to take a look from the user's perspective.
> > >
> > > Thanks.  :)
> > >
> > > --
> > >   Paul Chvostek
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >   Operations / Development / Abuse / Whatever       vox: +1
> 416 598-0000
> > >   it.canada
http://www.it.ca/
> >

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