RE: CGI-RPG Parameters with different sizes -- RPG400-L

I see something odd with your eval being your passing "parms",
it would help much to do something like the following:

Eval      WebOut = '<a href="http://pacnet/cgi-rpg/FD003R4?location='
          + %trim(Location)
          + '&mfitem='
          + %trim(mfitem)
          + '&mordno='
          + %trim(mordno)
          + '">'

This of course is all in your convert database procedure (the DS/file name)
for converting your "parms" to data fields when reading in html data.

The way you had it previously, you would have to look at the data, search
for the question mark,
and feed the data through, way too much work for me.

If you would like, off-line I could send you some text files of how I have
done an open order
inquiry web page, first showing the header detail, then calling another CGI
to show the detail.

It works like a charm - the first couple of cgi programs where "weird" to
say the least, but once
you get the swing of it, it all makes sense.

Some of my code is not as pretty as some would prefer, but I am much like
Brad in I prefer to know
why I am doing something, and how it really works.

The other thing that helped me much in coding web pages was to do some
surfing, see something "neat"
and look at the html source to see how they did it.

I have some rather interesting java scripts that my rpg-cgi programs write
out too, its just all
output to html source, nothing magical, just different rules than green
screen, kind of like an
American having to learn to drive on the other side of the road in Europe.

HTH


Mark A. Manske
Fleming CSD - Plymouth Division
Sr. Project Lead
Phone      (763) 545-3700 extension 273
Web Site  http://www.minter-weisman.com
E-Mail    mailto:mmanske@minter-weisman.com






-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Peter_Vidal@pall.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 7:55 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: CGI-RPG Parameters with different sizes



Joep:

My CALLER program (FD003R) creates dynamically an HTML page and a link to my
CALLED program (FD003R4).  The link is created as follows:

Eval      WebOut = '<a href="http://pacnet/cgi-rpg/FD003R4?'
          + %trim(Location)
          + %trim(mfitem)
          + mordno

In here, (Location) is 5 long, (mfitem) is 15 long and mordno is 7 long, all
character fields.  If this is the case, I should be sending just one field
with
these three values in it, isn't that right?  If that is the case, that means
that having a data structure in the CALLED program will not help me in
identify
these three parms that are coming in(Thinking out loud)

I am about to analyze the API QzhbCgiParse but, can you correct me in my
previous thoughts and if there is a logical answer about how to handle
effectively this one field into the three corresponding parameter values
that
are inside?