[ic] Catalog page...

[Loy Ellen Gross]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Paul Stearns wrote:

>Display 3 by 3 thumbnails (9 thumbnails per page) with description from the cat
>file. There are about 30 categories. Which would obviously take multiple
>pages...
>
>When the user clicks on the thumbnail I need to display an image with the
>description, followed by the products and prices which match the category., ala
>the results page. I have the descriptions in the long field of the products.

Warning: I'm not the greatest mv/ic programmer there ever was, so
I'm sure this could be done better, but it does display three across
using multiple files, so I'm sure you could use it as a starting point.

[tag flag build][value mv_searchspec][/tag]

<H2 ALIGN="center">[value mv_searchspec]</H2>

[search-region send=1]

[more-list]
<H4>Matches [matches]
[if value mv_search_match_count > 1]
  of [value mv_search_match_count] found.
[/if]
[more]
</H4>
[/more-list]

[comment] these calc areas are probably what you're looking for [/comment]
[comment] they work together to print a balanced 3-across table [/comment]
[calc]
  $inc = 1;
  return '';
[/calc]

<TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0>
[search-list]
  [on-change 1]
  [condition][item-data categories subcategory][/condition]

  <TR><TD COLSPAN=3><TABLE __TABLEBORDER__><TR><TD>
    <P ALIGN="center"><B><FONT COLOR="__HEADERTEXT__">
      [item-data categories subcategory]</FONT></B></P>
  </TD></TR></TABLE><BR></TD></TR>
  [/on-change 1]

  [comment] start a new table row at zero and every third item [/comment]
  [calc]
    return '<TR VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center">' if ($inc % 3) == 1;
    return '';
  [/calc]
    <TD><P>
    [comment] this scan is through products, passing in some [/comment]
    [comment] vars from the current db (categories) so we don't [/comment]
    [comment] have to look them up yet again [/comment]
    <A HREF="[area scan/dl=[item-code]/di=pageid/ml=99/sp=flyresults/va=in=[item-data categories image]/va=vn=[item-data categories vendor]]">
      [if file /www/hosts/obiesails/catalogimages/[item-data categories thumbnail]]
      [then]
        <IMG SRC="[item-data categories thumbnail]" WIDTH=100 HEIGHT=100
        HSPACE=3 VSPACE=3 BORDER=1 BORDERCOLOR="#000000" ALIGN="top"
        ALT="[item-data categories pagetitle]"><BR>
      [/then]
      [/if]
      [item-data categories pagetitle]<BR>
      </A></P>
    </TD>
  [comment] end the row every third item [/comment]
  [calc]
    return '</TR>' unless ($inc++ % 3);
    return '';
  [/calc]
[/search-list]
[comment] outside the search list, this finishes off the last row [/comment]
[comment] if products return is not divisible by three - I use [/comment]
[comment] this as a true results page - have no idea how many [/comment]
[comment] will be returned [/comment]
[calc]
  return '</TR>' if ($inc % 3);
  return '';
[/calc]
</TABLE>

[more-list]
<FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="arial,helvetica">Matches [matches] of
[if value mv_search_match_count > 1]
    [value mv_search_match_count] titles found.
[/if]
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>Links to more matches:</B><BR>
[more]
</BLOCKQUOTE></FONT>
[/more-list]

[no-match]
<BR><BR>
<P ALIGN="center">Sorry, no matches for <B>[value mv_searchspec]</B>.</P>
<BR><BR>
[/no-match]

[/search-region]

Cheers, Loy

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    Loy Ellen Gross * Web Designer & Programmer * Xcalibur Internet
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