Table of Contents

(all in one file)

1. Databases and Interchange
1.1. Text Source Files
1.2. Interchange Database Conventions
1.3. The Product Database
1.4. Multiple Database Tables
1.5. Character Usage Restrictions
1.6. Database Attributes
1.7. Dictionary Indexing With INDEX
1.8. MEMORY for Memory-Only Databases
1.9. IMPORT_ONCE
1.10. Importing in a Page
1.11. Exporting from a Database
1.12. Write Control
1.13. Global Databases

2. SQL Support
2.1. SQL Support via DBI
2.2. SQL Access Methods
2.3. Importing from an ASCII File

3. Managing DBM Databases
3.1. Making the Database
3.2. Updating Individual Records

4. The Search Engine
4.1. The Search Form
4.2. Glimpse
4.3. Fast Binary Search
4.4. Coordinated and Joined Searching
4.5. Specifying a Text-Based Search with SQL-Like Syntax
4.6. Range Searching
4.7. One-Click Searches
4.8. Setting Display Options with mv_value
4.9. In-Page Searches
4.10. Search Profiles
4.11. Search Reference
4.12. The Results Page

5. Sorting

6. Shipping
6.1. Shipping Cost Database
6.2. Criteria Determination
6.3. Shipping Calculation Modes
6.4. How Shipping is Calculated
6.5. More On UPS-Style Lookup
6.6. Geographic Qualification
6.7. Handling Charges
6.8. Default Shipping Mode

7. User Database
7.1. The [userdb ...] Tag
7.2. Setting Defaults with the UserDB Directive
7.3. User Database Functions
7.4. Address Book
7.5. Accounts Book
7.6. Preferences
7.7. Carts
7.8. Controlling Page Access With UserDB
7.9. Using more than one table

8. Tracking and Back-End Order Entry
8.1. ASCII Backup Order Tracking
8.2. Database Tracking
8.3. Order Routing

9. SSL Support

10. Frequently Asked Questions
10.1. I can't get SQL to work: Undefined subroutine &Vend::Table::DBI::create ...
10.2. How can I use Interchange with Microsoft Access?