Family Historian User Group

Posted: **26 Apr 2012 13:58**

Jane, regarding the Check Version In Store snippet, the following variation appears to work well with only one parameter, or if parameter is missing:

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function checkVersionInStore(plugin)
local http = luacom.CreateObject('winhttp.winhttprequest.5.1')
local strRequest = 'http://www.family-historian.co.uk/lnk/checkpluginversion.php?'
if tonumber(plugin) then
      strRequest = strRequest..'id='..plugin
elseif plugin then
      strRequest = strRequest..'name='..plugin
end

ID:6191

Posted: **26 Apr 2012 14:12**

You can add it as a variation on the page, if you like, personally I prefer to try keep the code transparent, so would rather have two parameters or even two different functions, rather than assume a number is an id and a string a name.

Posted: **26 Apr 2012 14:39**

OK, I will add the one parameter variant as Version 2.

However, the two parameter version might be better as follows:

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local strRequest = 'http://www.family-historian.co.uk/lnk/checkpluginversion.php?'
if pluginname then
      strRequest = strRequest..'name='..pluginname
elseif tonumber(pluginid) then
      strRequest = strRequest..'id='..pluginid
end

that checks 1st parameter is numeric, and fails less abruptly when no parameters.

Family Historian User Group

Check Version In Store (code snippet)

Check Version In Store (code snippet)

Check Version In Store (code snippet)

Check Version In Store (code snippet)