Re: [mv] changing __LEFTHANDSIDE__

[Barry Treahy <treahy@mmaz.com>]

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I could be mistaken, but my recent experience with altering leftside as well as many of the
other layout elements is that they are controlled by the catalogs configuration file and read in
at startup time.  I attempted to change LEFTSIDE on the fly without success so I took what is
perhaps a kloogy path and just created additional LEFTSIDE_XXX's in the catalog config file and
made the appropriate references in the actual page.  Worked fine, but if there is a mroe dynamic
method, I too would be interested.

Barry

Michael James wrote:

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>
> Hi All,
>
> I have configured the simple catalog and am using noframes.
> The store consists of 7 shops so I have altered the page lefthandside to
> represent the shops and clicking on the links displays a new page with a
> new lefthandside e.g healthlefthandside.
> These new lefthandsides display the categories of products in each shop and
> when you click on a category it does a on click search which displays the
> results in results.html.
>
> All this is fine.
> The results.html page has the original lefthandside in it and  would like
> to have the lefthandside associated with the shop.
> One solution is to create a new healthresults.html page and use that which
> works fine
>
> Since all the shops are by one owner and are to look the same I thought it
> would be nice for administrative purposes to only have one results.html and
> vary the __LEFTHANDSIDE__ variable according to the page it was coming
> from.
>
> Ive created a variable in my one click search
> va=new_leftside=HEALTHLEFTHANDSIDE then in my results.html page I have
> replace the __LEFTHANDSIDE__ with __[value new_lefthandside]__
> When I click on the link I get the results page with __HEALTHLEFTHANDSIDE__
> as text and no healthlefthandside
>
> Ive also tried setting va= new_leftside=healthlefthandside and putting
> [include pages/[new_lefthandside]] in the results page. I get no
> lefthandside displayed and the last bracket ]
>
> Any pointers or suggestions on what words to search under in the mail
> archive would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers
> Michael
>
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