[ic] thumbnails in results pages: newbie question

[Matt Olander]

>
>> my question is how can i get thumbnails to show in the results
>> page of a search? we'd
like that to be the default when a customer
>> clicks on a Category on the left nav menu.
>

>
> Edit results.html and include an image call in the loop:
>
> One way of doing this
would be:
>
> <IMG SRC="items/thumb/[item-field thumb]">

absolutely what i
needed! thanks much!!

>
> Though this would mean you would get a broken image if no value
was in
> the products database or the image is missing.
>
> To fix this you could add a
blank.gif into the thumb field for each
> product that is without an image.
>
> Another
method would be to surround it with an if statement.
> Many permutations of this. You could
use:
>
> [if file /home/usr/cat/images/thumb/[item-code]_b.jpg]<IMG
>
SRC="items/thumb/[item-code]_b.jpg">[/if]
>
> In the above example note that this
store would need images to be named
> by SKU.
>
> You could also do:
>
> [if file
/home/usr/cat/images/thumb/[item-field thumb]"><IMG
> SRC="items/thumb/[item-
field thumb]">[/if]
>
> Finally, just to mention that on a busy catalog 'if' statements
in a
> results page are more taxing on the server than <IMG
> SRC="items/thumb/[item-
field thumb]">
>
>
>
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