Is there a cleaner way to do this

[keffa]

Hello everyone

Is there a cleaner way of doing the following?

Earlier in the script the variables g.query, g.rowid where populated and I now wish to reference them in a link so the link appears like this in the html...

/profile.mvc?id=3 (3 being whatever the current record number is in the loop)

However the following doesn't work as it causes compiler errors...

<a href="/profile.mvc?id=<MvEVAL EXPR="{ g.query[g.rowid]:profile_id }">"><MvEVAL EXPR="{ g.query[g.rowid]:profile_name }"></a>

The only way I can get it to work is this way...

<MvEVAL EXPR="{ '\<a href\=\"/game\.mvc\?id\=' $ g.query[g.rowid]:profile_id $ '\"\>' $ g.query[g.rowid]:profile_name $ '\</a\>' }">

I am sure there must be a cleaner way but I just can't see it. Any help would be much appreciated.

[wmgilligan]

Re: Is there a cleaner way to do this

<MvEval expr=“{ '<a href="/profile.mvc?id=‘ $ g.query[g.rowid]:profile_id  $ ‘“>’ $ g.query[g.rowid]:profile_name $ '"></a>’  }">

Not checked, but I think its right

[Scott McCollough]

Re: Is there a cleaner way to do this

Alternate:

<a href="{ '/profile.mvc?id=' $ g.query[g.rowid]:profile_id }"><MvEVAL EXPR="{ g.query[g.rowid]:profile_name }"></a>

Pretty much anywhere HTML has a quoted value inside a tag, if you use the curly braces, it becomes an implied MvEVAL. So you could have things like:

<input type="text" name="{ l.name }" id="{ 'id_' $ l.name }" value="{ encodeentities( l.value ) }" />

[keffa]

Re: Is there a cleaner way to do this

Pretty much anywhere HTML has a quoted value inside a tag, if you use the curly braces, it becomes an implied MvEVAL. So you could have things like:

<input type="text" name="{ l.name }" id="{ 'id_' $ l.name }" value="{ encodeentities( l.value ) }" />

:-O Wait...wut? Goodness me that is a uber useful thing to know. My code looks so much cleaner now LOL. Thank you for your assistance.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Is there a cleaner way to do this

Yea, there a lot of little "tricks" like that, which is why looking at other peoples code is great thing.

Also, you might look at the <mvcapture> tag if you have a bunch of text/mivascript evaluations to collect as one item. For example, you could basically run an entire page inside <mvcapture> and then show that page with a simple <mveval expr="{g.VariableUsedInMvCapture}">

(Hey, some one needs to write a 'tip of the day' feature for Mivascript.com...in mivascript of course.)