Re: [htmltmpl] how to determine if tmpl_var exists in a loop?

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Hello Puneet.

Slightly off topic but useful for making templating easy and not looking =
like a cgi.

Puneet said:
>In effect, the users are not going to index.cgi?do=3Dsomecrap, but they =
are=20
>going to /website/somecrap. So you can use path_info, but how are you=20
>getting the cgi to fire up?

Its easy if you have control over your server.
make a soft link to your cgi directory and call it something related to =
your app

/cgi-bin/information.cgi?do=3Dparameters

becomes

/mortgage/information/parameters

This doesn't work for all servers.
I have a shared one that won't let me do that, so I had to have an =
extension.
but you can do this differently by making up a new filename extension =
and making it
act like a cgi

In this case, Mortgage_Rate.html is a parameter, not a file, but it =
looks like a file.
http://marketside.com/mortgage/mortgage.cgi/Mortgage_Rate.html

On another server that I control, I can change mortgage.cgi to just =
mortgage.
On this one I could have made the extension .info act like a cgi and =
then I could have used
http://marketside.com/mortgage/mortgage.info/Mortgage_Rate.html

- but by the time I realised that, it was in all the search engines.

And this makes it easy to use Templates but not make it too obvious.


Alan.