I'd like DaDa to store the name of the list being edited in a cookie so FCK can use that for user-specific file upload directories, templates, etc. I'm comfortable with PHP but It's been a long time since I've done any Perl coding, and it was pretty basic then. Any pointers on the most elegant way to extend DaDa to include a new cookie would be most welcome � thanks.

Here's some ideas,

To just have Dada Mail store a new cookie, you can try tweaking the login subroutine in the mail.cgi file. Here's the lines to look for:

           print $q->header(-cookie  => [$dumb_cookie, $login_cookie],
                             -nph     => $DADA::Config::NPH,
                             -Refresh =>'0; URL=' . $referer);

You can just add another cookie to the end of that, like this:

   my $fckeditor_cookie = $q->cookie(
-name => 'dada_mail_list',
-value => $admin_list,
%DADA::Config::COOKIE_PARAMS,
  );

           print $q->header(-cookie  => [$dumb_cookie, $login_cookie, $fckeditor_cookie],
                             -nph     => $DADA::Config::NPH,
                             -Refresh =>'0; URL=' . $referer);


Then, just make sure to clear it out when you're done, find these lines the logout subroutine, also in the mail.cgi file:

       print $q->header(-COOKIE       => $logout_cookie,
                             -nph     => $DADA::Config::NPH,
                             -Refresh =>'0; URL=' . $location,
                           );

and just add another cookie with no real value:


   my $fckeditor_cookie = $q->cookie(
-name => 'dada_mail_list',
-value => undef,
%DADA::Config::COOKIE_PARAMS,
  );

       print $q->header(-COOKIE       => [$logout_cookie, $fckeditor_cookie],
                             -nph     => $DADA::Config::NPH,
                             -Refresh =>'0; URL=' . $location,
                           )

If you do a little test:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI;
my $q = new CGI;

my $fckeditor_cookie = $q->cookie(
-name => 'dada_mail_list',
-value => 'mylist',
);
print $q->header(-cookie  => [$fckeditor_cookie]);

Looks like the headers return looks something like this:

Set-Cookie: dada_mail_list=mylist; path=/
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:34:27 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

So, that looks easy enough to parse out.



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On Dec 8, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Ken Dow wrote:

Hi,

I'd like DaDa to store the name of the list being edited in a cookie so FCK can use that for user-specific file upload directories, templates, etc. I'm comfortable with PHP but It's been a long time since I've done any Perl coding, and it was pretty basic then. Any pointers on the most elegant way to extend DaDa to include a new cookie would be most welcome � thanks.

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