Hi Atrix, If the code is coming in chunks, then you might want to investigate the <@LITERAL> metatag when putting the variables back to together - before rendering.
Hope this helps. Cheers.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Atrix Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 12:43 AM Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: a question about dynamic code > thank you both for responding, now i know at the very least that this is > possible! > > when you say dont do anything funky to it before you insert it, i think > thats where a problem might be coming in. I didnt want to limit the text > size to something small, and i didnt want to allocate huge chunks of text in > the DB when i might only use a little bit of it most of the time, so i have > a table which has an id, a "chunk number" and a chunk of text thats 50 > characters long. I use a for loop and <@substring> to cut it into blocks of > 50 characters for storage in the database and when i dont use encoding=sql i > get an error. An example insert that fails without sql encoding is this: > > insert into VarText (Chunk,TextID,ChunkNumber) values > '.districtno='@@user$vdistrictno' and location.locn', 86, 5 > > also when i select...i select like this: > > select chunk from vartext where TextID=@@local$TextID order by chunk number > > then store it to a variable like this: > > <@assign local$Code value="<@VAR local$resultset type=text APrefix='' > ASuffix='' RPrefix='' RSuffix='' CPrefix='' CSuffix=''>"> > > any obvious problems with any of this? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Scott Cadillac > To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:17 PM > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: a question about dynamic code > > > Hi Atrix, > > Yes, you can store raw Witango Metatag text in a database and execute it > (dynamically) when the content is requested. I have this feature enabled for > all my webpages of my site ( http://xml-extra.net ) and so many parts of the > site are running dynamically straight from the database - and yes, at the > same time, I have one set of Witango files that services many different > domains with different content. > > And of course I have an on-line Text Editor for the pages, so when you > couple this with things like Database and Mail Actions stored in TCF files > (called via <@callmethod>) - you have a powerful programming environment > running over the web. > > ENCODING=METAHTML is the trick - but if it's not working for you, check the > Server configuration file because there might be a switch that turns this > off. I doubt that it's a licensing restriction. > > Also, are you on T2K SP1 at least? I know it works on this version - but I > can't remember about older versions. > > And maybe make user you're not doing anything funky with the variable before > displaying it with ENCODING=METAHTML > > Hope this helps. Cheers.... > > Scott Cadillac > VP, Research and Development > Plus International Corp. > 403-281-6090 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.plusinternational.com > > Does your company have an Enterprise Information Portal? Check out Salsa at > www.plusinternational.com/flash/salsa.htm > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Atrix Wolfe > To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:33 PM > Subject: Witango-Talk: a question about dynamic code > > > hello i got a crazy question kinda... > > we have an app where we have several different clients that each have their > own "playground" within the same set of apps so depending on which group > youve logged into, the applications can vary quite dramaticly. Because > switches and settings can only go so far, i was thinking we could store > snippets of witango code in the database and then select them for the > appropriate group, store it in a var and do a <@var local$Code > encoding=metahtml>. It seems not to want to work and i was wondering if it > was because of a licensing issue? > > Im storing the code with encoding=sql so it can handle quotes and other sql > control characters within the string. > > im selecting it into local$Rule and then doing an <@var local$Rule > encoding=metahtml> to get the code to "run". > > When i try to run it it just spits out the code plaintext without parsing > it. When i look at it in the database, it has < and > instead of < and > > so thats not the problem. > > When i do a <@var local$Rule> it shows < as < and > as > > > when i do a <@var local$Rule encoding=none> it shows the code without > parsing it (< as < and > as > but no code being run) > > when i do a <@var local$Rule encoding=metahtml> it also just shows the code > without running it. > > im pretty sure i must be doing something wrong but cant see what. Anyone > have any idea? > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
