[ic] Static Pages listing items by sku - rephrased

[Steve Graham]

You might be right, and I'll look at grouping them to save some code writing 
if possible, but there still should be some enclusive tag call
to display an item like the plus sell random items at the sides or bottom.

Thanks,
Steve

>From: "Marty Tennison" <marty@sediva.com>
>Reply-To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
>To: <interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com>
>Subject: RE: [ic] Static Pages listing items by sku - rephrased
>Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:26:51 -0800
>
>You might be missing the forest.   Instead of thinking about how code a 
>page
>to display individual items, think about how to "classify" individual items
>in different ways so that you can use your relational database and 
>pre-built
>pages to display certain types of items.
>
>Here is one way to do it:
>You could use the featured column of the products table to specify a
>particular search string then simply pass that sting in a query.  You could
>also specify a different results page than the normal results.html
>scan/st=db/co=yes/ml=10/sf=featured/sp=<SOME_RESULTS_PAGE>/se=<SOME_SEARCH_S
>TRING>
>
>
>BTW...You're right, doing a bunch of loops in a page would be very
>inefficient.  Your much better off to do a single loop with search 
>criteria.
>
>Marty Tennison
>marty@sediva.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com
> > [mailto:interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com]On Behalf Of
> > Steve Graham
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 3:56 PM
> > To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: [ic] Static Pages listing items by sku - rephrased
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm looking for something which I thought was very basic - I need to 
>show
> > item 18143 on a static page (one that I hand coded, eg.
> > test.html), showing
> > the sku number, selling price, order button, and a tumbnail
> > image. Just like
> > the random items showing on the main Interchange index.html page.
> >
> > The code below is a way to do this, but doesn't seem an efficient 
>method.
> > Any other simple way to make this function call?
> >
> > I suggested something like [display-item "18143"] just as an
> > example of what
> > MIGHT be available.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Steve
> >
> >
> > >From: cfm@maine.com
> > >Reply-To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
> > >To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
> > >Subject: Re: [ic] Static Pages listing items by sku(2)
> > >Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:07:35 -0500
> > >
> > >On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:47:52PM +0000, Steve Graham wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I have both dynamic and static pages in my web site.
> > > >
> > > > On the static pages I would like to display a few items showing
> > > > their price,
> > > > description, and an order button.
> > > >
> > > > I know I can use something like this for each item:
> > > > item code is 18143
> > > >
> > > > [loop search="se=18143"]
> > > >  [loop-field description]
> > > >  [loop-field price]
> > > >  [/loop]
> > > > [order "18143"]Order This</a>
> > > >
> > > > Isn't there a simple way like [display-item "18143"] to include all
> > > > the
> > > > above, or more in a neat clean format?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Steve
> > >
> > >Yes, we see you've asked several times.  Maybe it's clear to everyone
> > >else, but I find the question confusing so I skip it.  Maybe if you
> > >clarified what you mean by static and dynamic someone might help.
> > >
> > >cfm
> > >
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