[ic] Interpolate [include] or [file]?

[Jonathan Clark]

[contextual quoting fixed]

> > > I'm working on building a dynamic catalog browsing
> > > page.  The page gets a category of products from
> > the
> > > URL and possibly a page number to show, else it
> > shows
> > > the first in the category range.  These are images
> > of
> > > whole catalog pages in jpeg format with image maps
> > to
> > > go along with them.  It's a long story.
> > >
> > > What I'm wondering is if there's a way to
> > interpolate
> > > the [include] or [file] tags.  I need to grab a
> > > different image map, each of which are stored in
> > > separate files, for inclusion in the page
> > depending on
> > > what catalog page number I'm currently showing.
> > I've
> > > searched the archives and haven't been able to
> > find a
> > > way to do this.
> > >
> > > What I'd like to do, basically, is:
> > >
> > > [include name="catalog/imagemaps/[scratch
> > > thispage].map"]
> > >
> > > But that doesn't work.  Or does it and I'm doing
> > > something wrong?
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > >
> > > Ryan
> > >
> >
> > Ryan, did my suggestion not workout?
> >
> > [include file="catalog/imagemaps/[scratch
> > thispage].map"]
> >
> > assuming [scratch thispage] is properly set...

> Your suggestion did work for the [file] tag, but not
> the [include] tag.
>
> The image map I'm including looks like this:
>
> <area shape="rect" coords="145,93,163,141" href="[page
> href="7068"]">
> <area shape="poly"
> coords="103,71,127,71,134,110,132,125,118,134,97,127"
> href="[page href="7048"]">
>
> So I want to use [include] to interpolate all teh
> [page] tags in there.  However, I can only get the
> file to be included if I use [file] instead of
> [include].  The tag looks like:
>
> [include name="pages/catalog/imagemaps/[scratch
> thispage].html"]
>
> That doesn't work, but replacing include with file
> does include it, but obviously doesn't interpolate
> those tags.
>
> Any reason that would be?  I've checked and double
> checked the map fle and made sure all the [page] tags
> were formatted correctly and there were not weird
> brackets hanging about.

Firstly, please post replies in the context of the message, as per the
guidelines of the list which you were sent.

As has been answered above, the named parameter for the [include] tag is
'file' and not 'name'. Also, I think you meant to use [area] instead of
[page] in your above code. Other than that, it should work if you use:

[include file="pages/catalog/imagemaps/[scratch thispage].html"]

Jonathan
www.webmaint.net