[Apc-aa-coders] Sites: Moving from one URL to another

[Mitra <mi...@mi...>]

Hi - and happy new year

I'm having difficulty figuring out ways to smoothly move between 
different parts of a site.

I can see how in the site/sites/site_greenpages.php3 file I am 
looking at an existing state string, and then a new state to change 
to,  but for example .....

I have one state   "h--1-"  which is the home page, and this has a 
list of "Categories" on it, which are generated by a view, each item 
in the view wants to be a link that would wants to change the state to

m=s   i=_#SITEM_ID s=s

which would be a state string of "s12345s1-"

I also have to get teh site_id into the URL, since I'm trying to 
avoid having a one-line HTML file that contains
<!#include /apc-aa+/module/site/site.php3?site_id=1a2b3c>


I can see several choices to code this, none of which are pretty ....

<a 
href="/apc-aa+/modules/site/site.php3?apc=s_#SITEM_IDs1-&site_id=a1b2b3c">_#HEADLINE</a>
or
<a 
href="/apc-aa+/modules/site/site.php3?apc={state}&m=s&i=_#SITEM_ID&s=s&site_id=a12b3c">_#HEADLINE</a>

(I can abbreviate these slightly to
<a href="?apc=s_#SITEM_IDs1-&site_id=a1b2b3c">_#HEADLINE</a>
or
<a href="?apc={state}&m=s&i=_#SITEM_ID&s=s&site_id=a12b3c">_#HEADLINE</a>

But these aren't elegant either, and anyway {state} won't work in a 
View, unless I fix the code in item.php3 to look up variables in the 
apc_state array as well (a good idea, something I'll do unless 
someone says its a bad idea!) Although it would be even better if the 
code had been merged instead of two VERY similar syntaxes being 
written separately.

There is a hint on this somewhere (I can't find the reference at the 
moment) where it refers to the apc={state} part being added to URLs 
generated by apc-aa.

It looks to me like this code was written for a particular way of 
doing something, and not generalized, the trouble is I can't figure 
out how it was INTENDED to be used.

- Mitra

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