[ic] Making flypage based on fields other than sku

[JT Justman]

oleg at eville.us wrote:
> Greetings, list!
> 
> My first post to this list comes after searching the archives
> unsuccessfully for what seems like a simple question.  For mostly
> aesthetic reasons I would like the URL of the product detail pages
> (flypage.html) to be based on a field other than sku.  For example,
> instead of www.mystore.com/os28108.html I would like to have that same
> product pulled up by www.mystore.com/Hand_Brush.html or something along
> these lines.  Let's say it's a custom field I created which simply takes
> the title and replaces spaces with underscores.
> 

Hi, Oleg!

There are probably many ways to do this in Interchange. You could do
something like that using an ActionMap. Say you call it 'details'. Then
you could call 'mystore.com/details/Hand_Brush.html.

Very roughly, and untested:

ActionMap details	<<EOR
sub {
  my $target = shift;

  my $sku = $Tag->data({
    table => 'products',
    field => 'sku',
    foreign => 'custom_field_of_your_choice',
    key => $target,
  });

  # Store the target in $Session->{arg}
  $Session->{arg} = $sku;

  # Set the target page
  $CGI->{mv_nextpage} = 'flypage.html';
  return 1;
}
EOR

HTH,

JT