[ic] Results.html and tables?

[Curt Hauge]

Quoting Paul Jordan

> OK, my problem. My partners think my results.html page is not utilizing
> space well. As you know it loops through a search and displays them one
> below the other. I agree with them though. Is there a way to display the
> results like maybe 2 or 3 across and 2 or 3 down. You know?
>
> Like lets say I am selling pictures and I would like to display results
> going 3 across (left to right) and 3 down, although I don't care how many
> down it goes. I can control that search amount, that is easy
> enough.  I have
> no idea how to begin. Would I create 2 search lists?

See the [table_organize] tag or check this out, thanks to David Bordas. It
produces 5 items per row, based on this part of the code:

if(($table_cell % 5) == 0)

This is working code, however, I am using two distinct databases. It may not
be the speediest, but it works great. YMMV

Good luck!

Curt Hauge



<!-- BEGIN CONTENT -->

[perl failure="Perl code error <BR>"]
my $table_cell=0;
return ("");
[/perl]


[search-region]
[search-list]

<table cellspacing="10" cellpadding="10">
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td>

[loop search="fi=prog/sf=category/se=[item-data package
cat]/ml=9999/tf=title"]

[perl failure="Perl code error <BR>"]
if(($table_cell % 5) == 0)
{
 return("</tr><tr>\n");
}
[/perl]

<td>[if-loop-data prog image]<img src="prog/[loop-data prog
image]"><br>[/if-loop-data]<font size=-1>[loop-data prog title]</font></td>

[perl failure="Perl code error <BR>"]
$table_cell++;
return ("");
[/perl]
[/loop]
[/search-list]

<td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
</table>

[/search-region]

<!-- END CONTENT -->