[ic] Related items component

[Ed LaFrance]

At 10:02 AM 11/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I'm writing a "related items" component to put in the flypage that will
>suggest items that have the roughly the same title.  I've basically
>copied the promo component and adjusted it to suit my needs.
>
>Basically I pass the title of the current item to my component and using
>the following block, get the first 3 words to pass to the search loop.
>
>[perl]
>  $tmp_title=$Tag->control(title);
>  @words = split/\s/, $tmp_title;
>  $Scratch->{tmp_title} = join(" ", @words[0,1,2]);
>  return;
>[/perl]
>
>Now, I get items returned and they all match correctly (my search is
>below), but I always get the current item returned as the first result.
>
>What I'd like to do is to be able to shift the first item of the array
>off so that the item the user is looking at doesn't appear in my related
>items area.
>
>Can anyone offer suggestions on how I'd go about doing this?
>
>Thanks,
>Kevin

Well, you did not post the code that needs to be changed, so you limited 
the likelihood of getting a useful response... but I would think that if 
the body of the component is the results of a search, you could make it a 
coordinated search and exclude the current item by sku. You could also use 
a [loop-next] to skip a result if it matches the current item. And there 
are other ways, I'm sure.

- Ed


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