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Using strSubject

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Topic: Using strSubject

Posted By: MortiOli
Subject: Using strSubject
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 9:23am

Sorry if this is a really easy problem to solve, but I'm a PHP programmer, so don't know a lot about ASP...

On my WWF forum, I have an advert at the top (where the WWF Google Ads usually appear), which I can specify keywords for. What I'd like to do is to use the topic title (strSubject) as the keywords, with each word separated by + signs, BUT if the user is on another page (ie, Active Users etc), then a default set of keywords is used.

I managed to get half of this done, but having problems with errors saying variable undefined on some pages, then variable already defined on others when I define it.

Could someone please help?

Thanks!

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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:48am

I would define a new variable at the bottom of the common.asp file say

dim strMortiKeywords

(to make sure its 'unique')

Then set your 'default' keywords under it like so

dim strMortiKeywords
strMortiKeywords = "my+keywords+for+advert"

Then in the forum_posts.asp file set the bottom of the ASP section, before the HTML starts this:

strMortiKeywords = strSubject

To get the + in, you can either use

strMortiKeywords = Server.URLEncode(strSubject)

strMortiKeywords = Replace(strSubject," ", "+")

The Replace method will only replace spaces with the + sign, if (as i suspect) you need it for a URL, then the URL Encode method would be better as it'll make sure the subject is "URL Friendly"

Then pass it to your advert, as you are already with strSubject

You can then set your custom variable on any other pages with say forum titles on forum pages or anything else if you wished.

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Posted By: MortiOli
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 12:39pm

Thanks Scotty, perfect!