How to do this? Need advice.

[Shapper]

Hello,

I have a problem: Inside the Item Template of an ASP:Repeater I need to
display a link.

The link url value is given by:
<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "link") %>

The link text changes according to the culture of my web site:
"pt-PT" - Lêr Mais
"en-GB" - Read More
....

I tried to use a <a> tag where the text is taken from a public variable.
OR
To use an ASP: Hiperlink.

Anyway, I am having problems in both and I am not even sure if there are
the best options

I also have a session variable, session("culture"), where current
culture is available.

Can someone advice me on this?

I know this is simple but I am having problems with it.

Thank You,
Miguel

 

[Brock Allen]

I'm not sure what you're really trying to do, but it soulds like you have
some complex logic that determines what appears in your data bound template.
When I have this situation I factor out that code into a method in my page:

string GetString(object row)
{
// ...
}

And then call this from my data binding code:

<ItemTemplate>
<a href='...'><%# GetString(Container.DataItem)%></a>
</ItemTemplate>

So then in your method, you do your logic. The row parameter is the row from
your data source, so you can access andy column via DataBinder.Eval:

string GetString(object row)
{
int val1 = (int)DataBinder.Eval(row, "ColumnOne");
string val2 = (string)DataBinder.Eval(row, "ColumnTwo");
// ...
return "This is the string that will be in the data bound template";
}

And just return a dynamically created string to fill into the data bound
template.

-Brock
DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/ballen