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Hey guys,

I am considering writing a pepper that records ids of entries in my content management system.

The main issue I have is that the url of an entry may change so I was hoping to record the entry_id in a new mint table col.

Basically I was planning to add the following to the manifest:

• entry_id
• section_id

Can these details be recorded using the mint script call?

something like

Then use the $_GET super global in my mint pepper?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Cheers

Hey Shaun,

Thanks for your reply. I previously went the documentation and the only mention of $_GET variables was:

“The onRecord() event handler fires after the Mint JavaScript include has validated the hit and the Mint record method is called. It operates on existing $_GET values, values generated as a result of the Pepper’s optional JavaScript output or existing $_SERVER variables.”

I was not quite sure if this referred to the browser url: http://leevigraham.com/index.php?my_get_variable=true

or the mint initialisation call:

Can you clarify this and maybe post a quick example if needed?

Cheers

Hey Shaun,

Thanks for that… I guess I wasn’t as clear as I could have been.

Heres my situation….

I have a cms (expressionengine) that uses friendly urls for pages

eg: http://leevigraham.com/my_entry_url_title

Now my_entry_url_title can change at anytime but the entry id always stays the same.

I could record hits on those pages using the url but if the entry_url_title changes then mint would see this as another page, although it would be the same.

So I was hoping to pass the entry ID directly into mint like: http://mydomain.com/mint/?js&entry_id=1

However you have stated that the pepper php is not run in the page so I guess this is out of the question.

Another idea I had was to add the entry_id as a class on the body and use js to parse it out and save it back into mint like the window width pepper example.

Something like that… although ideally I would like to avoid the extra js calls even though they would be pretty small.

Ok that sounds like a plan….

So rather than using the onJavaScript() method to insert a custom script could I just do something like this inline on each page before the mint script is called:

<script type="text/javascript> if (!Mint.LG) { Mint.LG = new Object(); } Mint.LG.NewPepper = { onsave : function() { return '&entry_id=1; } }; </script>

or would I still need to use the onJavaScript() method to insert the pepper script.

So in my page I would have:

<script type="text/javascript> var lg_entry_id = 1; </script>

and my pepper included script would be:

if (!Mint.LG) { Mint.LG = new Object(); } Mint.LG.NewPepper = { onsave : function() { return '&entry_id=' + lg_entry_id; } };

Thanks for your patience and help on this one

Well that makes perfect sense :)

Thanks for your time.