I have posted at http://drupal.org/node/361193 a request for information but have yet to hear anything back. So, I thought I'd try here. I am rewriting a web site from php4 to drupal 6. One important section of the old site uses QUERY_STRING to pass a parameter thusly: "../viewform/wcab10" The string "viewform" represents an actual page but "wcab10" is an index value. I'm trying to figure out how to do this with drupal. So far it looks as if I need to create nodes for all possible index field values. Rather I wish to land on viewform (node/xxx) and use "wcab10" as a parameter for a module (select * from table where index_field = "wcab10").
Scott ha scritto:
I have posted at http://drupal.org/node/361193 a request for information but have yet to hear anything back. So, I thought I'd try here. I am rewriting a web site from php4 to drupal 6. One important section of the old site uses QUERY_STRING to pass a parameter thusly: "../viewform/wcab10" The string "viewform" represents an actual page but "wcab10" is an index value. I'm trying to figure out how to do this with drupal. So far it looks as if I need to create nodes for all possible index field values. Rather I wish to land on viewform (node/xxx) and use "wcab10" as a parameter for a module (select * from table where index_field = "wcab10").
The first thing that I think is to create an alias from node/xxx to viewform. If I don't wrong remember in this way the rest of the URL that follow viewform is considered like parameter(s). Try.
M.
This sounds to me like you're trying to write a module, yes? If that's true what your're doing is easier than you might think, as drupal does much of the url parsing for you.
Understand that if you write your function as
Function mymodule($index) { sql code goes here. }
And you register that function on a menu path 'viewform', that function will get $index as a parameter already, that is index will already have 'wcab10' as the index.
Would suggest getting a copy of the drupal pro development book and also looking at the developer docs at http://api.drupal.org and more specifically at http://api.drupal.org/api/function/page_example_baz/6
Good luck,
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Scott Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 5:19 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: [support] Parsing QUERY_STRING
I have posted at http://drupal.org/node/361193 a request for information but have yet to hear anything back. So, I thought I'd try here. I am rewriting a web site from php4 to drupal 6. One important section of the old site uses QUERY_STRING to pass a parameter thusly: "../viewform/wcab10" The string "viewform" represents an actual page but "wcab10" is an index value. I'm trying to figure out how to do this with drupal. So far it looks as if I need to create nodes for all possible index field values. Rather I wish to land on viewform (node/xxx) and use "wcab10" as a parameter for a module (select * from table where index_field = "wcab10").
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page_example.module was exactly what I was after. I do have a copy of Pro Drupal Development, 2nd edition but I haven't gotten very far into it yet. I'd seen references to menuing but hadn't followed them up because I wasn't using a "menu". Anyway, thanks again for the clue - a significant advancement in understanding drupal for me.
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 07:58 -0800, Metzler, David wrote:
This sounds to me like you're trying to write a module, yes? If that's true what your're doing is easier than you might think, as drupal does much of the url parsing for you.
Understand that if you write your function as
Function mymodule($index) { sql code goes here. }
And you register that function on a menu path 'viewform', that function will get $index as a parameter already, that is index will already have 'wcab10' as the index.
Would suggest getting a copy of the drupal pro development book and also looking at the developer docs at http://api.drupal.org and more specifically at http://api.drupal.org/api/function/page_example_baz/6
Good luck,
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Scott Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 5:19 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: [support] Parsing QUERY_STRING
I have posted at http://drupal.org/node/361193 a request for information but have yet to hear anything back. So, I thought I'd try here. I am rewriting a web site from php4 to drupal 6. One important section of the old site uses QUERY_STRING to pass a parameter thusly: "../viewform/wcab10" The string "viewform" represents an actual page but "wcab10" is an index value. I'm trying to figure out how to do this with drupal. So far it looks as if I need to create nodes for all possible index field values. Rather I wish to land on viewform (node/xxx) and use "wcab10" as a parameter for a module (select * from table where index_field = "wcab10").
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