Serving data depending on URL

[Richard Irvine]

Just new to this forum and hoping someone can help me. I am setting up an online store but would like to have some data displayed differently for different regions

My idea is to set up a number of addresses such as region1.company.com, region2.company.com etc but have them all point to the same database.

I would like to capture the address the user is selecting and then display data with an if statement. e.g. if the site region1.company.com. is being used, display data from field1

Is there a way I can capture the URL.

Hope the question makes sense

[Ralphie]

Richard,

What version of Filemaker are you using? the reason that I ask is that you may be able to have the user input the url information in an opening screen and then carry the value as a token. Then do your if/else statement depending on the token value. The problem is...Filemaker 4.1 only gave you the ability to have one token. Version 5.5 gave you the version to carry multiple tokens....5 I believe. You may want to visit the posts on this page that deals with Tokens. Not real sure if this is the cleanest way to solve your problem. Hope this helps.

Regards

[Anatoli]

You can do anything with URL in JavaScript.

You can also store that to FM field and then base next steps on that.

[Richard Irvine]

Thanks for that. I might look at combining the two options. Using on of the tokens would be the best answer. Could I use javascript to set the token from the URl?

[Anatoli]

For JavaScript to be processed in FM WC don't use the <!-- --> comments tags.

[Garry Claridge]

You can use something like this:

[FMP-If:ClientAddress .eq. region1.company.com][FMP-Field:field1][/FMP-If]

[FMP-If:ClientAddress .eq. region2.company.com][FMP-Field:field2][/FMP-If]

[FMP-If:ClientAddress .eq. region3.company.com][FMP-Field:field3][/FMP-If]

All the best.

Garry