use shortcode to display survey

sophia · January 12th, 2012, 02:46 PM

Content is still in database, the method I am talking about is to access and display content.

Imar · January 12th, 2012, 05:09 PM

I understand, but who's going to add

[shop Id=1]

to the ASPX file? It feels like a hard coded solution.

I think you're misunderstanding the purpose and usefulness of the query string or other mechanisms to do run-time content binding.

Cheers,

Imar

sophia · January 13th, 2012, 03:00 AM

Sometimes ago I had to work on PHP for few days but as I am keen to Asp.Net and I love it, I stopped working on that.

And I know you also know PHP (I read somewhere). But in those days I saw that some data is accessed through such code, [shop Id=1] for example, directly in the html editor while writing a blog and nothing else was used, I know that there may be many things behind the scene but I actually don't know what happens.

How many Ids can be sent through querystring? suppose someone wants that he shows few products (which are stored in database) after few paragraphs e.g. he writes one paragraph then shows 1st product, then writes second paragraph and after it shows 2nd product, and so on...(paragraphs are not product description, they are not stored in database).

So now you understand that what I am saying then please tell me what actually this is called and how to make it work.

Thanks...

Imar · January 13th, 2012, 03:21 AM

I don't know what it's called as I still don't understand what you want, and more importantly, why you'd want it.

[shop Id=1]

in an ASPX context still makes no sense to me.

Like I said, look into Server Controls or User Controls. Then you can do something like this:

<sophia:Shop id="1" runat="server" />

That still doesn't make sense to me though as you'd be hardcoding the ID in the aspx page without the run-time options to manage it.

I don't have much more to add to this....

Cheers,

Imar

sophia · January 13th, 2012, 04:15 AM

OK, I will go with your suggested solution. But how those two suggestion can be used?

Code:

Lorem Ipsum....
<sophia:shop Id="1" runat="server" />
...
...
Lorem Ipsum...
<sophia:shop Id="3" runat="server" />
...

here how product will be fethced whose id is 1 and 3.
Thanks for suggestions and I think these may be real solution.

Imar · January 13th, 2012, 06:09 AM

Take a look at my Beginning ASP.NET 4 book, chapter 8 on User Controls. You'll see how to use the ShopId property in a user control. What you do with that ID is then up to you. You can use any data access technology you're comfortable with to query whatever data you need.

A small correction on my previous example:

<sophia:shop Id="Shop1" ShopId="1" runat="server" />

ID is a reserved property for conrols.

You can achieve something similar with Server Controls. My book doesn't discuss creating those, but Google seems to know a lot about it.

Cheers,

Imar

sophia · January 13th, 2012, 04:38 PM

Thanks I will try...