Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Borrowing a DVD from the Library

A good feature: when viewing films, it is possible for Project Participants to ask to borrow the DVD from the collection in the Project Library. How does this work?

By extracting the title, director and date from the ExpressionEngine tags, then we pass that via the URL to the email form page. The email message is then populated from the text in the last three segments of the URL.

Can’t be demonstrated unless you are logged in with correct permissions, but it really works.