Re: howto display multiple product images on one line

[mikeh@minivend.com]

Quoting Stefan Hornburg (racke@linuxia.de):
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> Malcolm Silberman <m_silber@mindspring.com> writes:
> 
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> > Together with my consultant we are trying to display a 'shelves' view.
> > My consultant says Minivend can't do this, but I thought I would see if
> > anyone has any suggestions. Here is what we are attempting to do;
> > 
> > We have small jpg images for each product. Instead of showing items in a
> > vertical list we want to display say 10 jpgs across and 10 down. i.e.. a
> > matrix of 10 by 10 (100 product images - with a link to more product
> > detail). Apparently it is difficult to tell Minivend where to place the
> > equivalent of an HTML <P> or <BR> at every 10 images. We especially want
> > to use this to display the results of a Minivend search when the search
> > returns more than say 20 items.
> 
> [search-list]
> [perl interpolate=1]
> '<BR>' unless [item-increment] % 10;
> [/perl]
> [/search-list]
> 

The performance on this would be poor for a large list, with many 
separate [perl] calls.

This one now comes up so frequently I am adding high-performance tags:

    [item-alternate N] DIVISIBLE [else] NOT DIVISIBLE [/else][/item-alternate]
        Set up an alternation sequence. If the item-increment is divisible by
        `N', the text will be displayed. If an `[else]NOT DIVISIBLE TEXT[/else]'
        is present, then the NOT DIVISIBLE TEXT will be displayed.
    
        For example:

                [item-alternate 2]EVEN[else]ODD[/else][/item-alternate]
                [item-alternate 3]BY 3[else]NOT by 3[/else][/item-alternate]

    [/item-alternate]
        Terminate the alternation area.



    [loop-alternate N] DIVISIBLE [else] NOT DIVISIBLE [/else][/loop-alternate]
        Set up an alternation sequence. If the loop-increment is divisible by
        `N', the text will be displayed. If an `[else]NOT DIVISIBLE TEXT[/else]'
        is present, then the NOT DIVISIBLE TEXT will be displayed.

        For example:

                [loop-alternate 2]EVEN[else]ODD[/else][/loop-alternate]
                [loop-alternate 3]BY 3[else]NOT by 3[/else][/loop-alternate]

    [/loop-alternate]
        Terminate the alternation area.

Look for it in next beta of 3.15.

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