Re: [mv] changing __LEFTHANDSIDE__

[Kareef Huggins <xellos@netzero.net>]

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from my experience, that is not the case, it reads it on startup.  whenever i change something
in these html files, i have to restart the server.
unless i'm doing something wrong.....

Ramsey French wrote:

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> In your page, replace the _LEFTSIDE_ variable with the tag:
>
> [include file=your_left_file]
>
> where your_left_file contains the pertinent HTML.  Since it is pulled in
> each time it needs to be displayed, you can change it all you want and it
> will pull in the updated version when you next access the page.
>
> When you've got it the way you want, paste the HTML back into the LEFTSIDE
> file and restart your server to use it.
>
> On 1/19/00 8:48 PM, Barry Treahy at treahy@mmaz.com wrote:
>
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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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> >> <mwjames@ak.planet.gen.nz>     ******
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> Planet Communications,  mwjames Consulting,  Pacific Consultants,
> >> mwjames@pl.net , mike@pacificconsult.co.nz
> >> Tel (09) 629 0617
> >> Fax (09) 629 0616
> >> Mob 021 708 460
> >>
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