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Subject: Re: Inserting $KEYWORD Variable

Author:
Patrick

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Date Posted: 17:49:23 08/17/05 Wed
In reply to: Wally 's message, "Inserting $KEYWORD Variable" on 17:22:36 08/12/05 Fri

Use php to create the variable.

$KEYWORD = "travel"

>I ran across the following suggestion to insert a
>keyword variable into CaRP but I couldn't understand
>how it was supposed to pull the variable value or how
>to create the variable value. Can someone explain how
>to do this and how to make it useful? Thanks
>
>-------------
>If you already use Carp and/or are comfortable with
>things like this, here�s a quick tutorial for you:
>1. Create a variable in your webpage file. Let�s call
>it �$KEYWORD�
>2. Include your Carp configuration settings if you use
>them
>3. Call the RSS feed with the keyword variable in the
>URL
>
>Example:
>CarpCacheShow("http://www.feedster.com/search.php?hl=en
>&ie=UTF-8&q= $KEYWORD&btnG=Search&sort=date");
>[NOTE: Remove the space before $KEYWORD, I put that in
>for better formatting here]
>
>See where the variable $KEYWORD is in that URL? Leave
>that as a variable in the URL, and simply change what
>the variable is equal to in each page. (Hopefully this
>makes sense)

MRL

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