RE: Can minivend go directly to flypage when the search returns only one item?

["Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>]

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I've also tried something similar to your original method of wrapping the
flypage and the results page in a big [if]. I did some timing tests and
found that Minivend is slower generating my page if the [if] [/if] was
around the outside of the [search-list] [/search-list] tags rather than
between them. This seems counter-intuitive. And, it seemed to get worse the
more matches returned. Anyone else have similar results, because the way
David tried to do it originally (with the big [if]) makes sense.

Christopher Thompson



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> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of David Ekholm
> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 7:49 PM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Cc: dan@dpcsys.com
> Subject: Re: Can minivend go directly to flypage when the search returns
> only one item?
>
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> >******    message to minivend-users from Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
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> >On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, David Ekholm wrote:
> >> Thanks, Birgitt, for your suggestion.  I agree, if I only want
> to search
> by
> >> ISBN, then what you suggested will work.  But I also want to be able to
> >> search using title and author keywords.  If a particular book exists in
> more
> >> than one format, the result of the search should be a list - paperback,
> >> hardcover, large print, etc.  However, if the book only exists in one
> >> format, then I don't need to see a list containing one book.
> It would be
> >> better if I'm zapped right to the flypage for that book.  As I
> said, that
> is
> >> what Amazon does, and it actually makes a lot of sense for any product,
> it
> >> doesn't just apply to books.
> >
> >Don't have the code for you but I'd put both the normal results
> >code and the flypage code into a single page wrapped with an
> >if that test the value of mv_search_match_count
> >
> >Dan
>
>
> Thanks, Dan, but I already tried that.  To repeat my original
> post (in case
> you deleted it) :
>
> [snip]
>
> I've tried to put my flypage code in the results page as in:
>
> [if value mv_search_match_count < 2]
>
> [search-list] (flypage stuff) [/search-list]
>
> [else]
>
> [search-list] (result page stuff) [/search-list]
>
> [/else][/if]
>
> This works OK for a few items, but is really slow if > 20 items
> are returned
> by the search.  I guess that minivend must go through the entire
> [search-list] (flypage stuff) [/search-list] routine even though
> I want the
> [if] tag to bypass this when there is more than 1 item.  The [if] tag
> apparently just prevents the result from getting to the browser.
>
> I've thought about trying the new [fly-list] tag, but I can't
> figure out how
> to get the item code into it without going through the [search-list] tag.
>
> I could also write a Perl routine to do it all, but that (for me)
> would be a
> lot of work and I would feel very foolish if there is an easier
> way to do it
> within minivend.  So I thought I'd ask the list first.
>
> [/snip]
>
>
> I confess, what I would really like is a search option that would jump to
> the flypage if one item is returned.  I was hoping that it already existed
> and I just couldn't find it in the docs.
>
>
> David Ekholm
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