Re: Results.html

[Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>]

At 03:02 PM 8/31/99 , Aboubacar Diare wrote:
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>
>I have two links on my web page which correspond to categories defined in
>my product.asc file.  My goal is that when clicked each link should
>display all the items under that specific category only.  It tried the
>following which i got from the minivend simple demo:
>
><a HREF="[area scan di=category df=yes dl=my_category]">my_category</a>
>
>and also
>
><a HREF="[area scan di=category df=yes dl=[loop-filed
category]">my_category</a>
>

Looks like the wrong syntax to me, try this:

[area scan/sf=category/se=whatever] to view all the 'whatevers'

>My second question is a follow:
>
>When i browse through my product.asc file, the first item is always
>ignored.  If i add an empty line at the bottom of the file then the first
>item gets displayed normally.  With that empty line, when i browse by
>category or so the result.html page interprets that empty line and you see
>a product with price =$0.00 and no image displayed.
>Any suggestions

	Is your products.asc file accidentally in binary?  You must use ascii
uploads, no funny characters, the correct field delimitters, etc, etc...



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