Re: [cgi-prototype-users] linking to non-default page

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>>>>> "john" == John S J Anderson <gen...@ge...> writes:

john> 2) encode '?_state=Login' into the URL in the href attribute (or various
john>    other schnanigans with specifying some state in the URL -- use
john>    'state=login' and switch on that in the respond_per_page() in the
john>    base class, for example)

I've used this, and recommend this.  In the fictional
CGI::Prototype::Cookbook, I have this:

    USE selfcgiurl = url(self.CGI.url({ path => 1 }));
    BLOCK link;
    #      [ state = "new state" ] (defaults to current state)
    #      [ other = { ... } ] (additional URL params)
      csp = self.config_state_param;
      DEFAULT state = self.param(csp);
      DEFAULT other = {};
      other.$csp = state;
      selfcgiurl(other);
    END;

Then I can say:

  [% WRAPPER link state = "Login" %]Login![% END %]

Note that this requires config_state_param to not begin with an
underscore or dot, thanks to some odd interactions with TT's
restrictions.

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