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Re: [ic] [how] products/categories.html, proposal (?)
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:52:30PM -0500, Eduardo Dominguez wrote:
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> I cant use the normal Cat/Subcat via bar_link sub because the list
> its pretty big. Reducing this list its just not possible.
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> What I am trying to do is create a categories.html, so that I always
> display categories on my left menu and when clicking on one I get
> the subcats displayed on the main content area.
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> Has anyone done something similar ? Isnt this functionality
> common so that it justifies a categories.html ? Categories dont seem to
> do much on Interchange other than grouping subcats. They are not
> clickable.
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> What I am currently doing involves a loop thru the categories
> and creates a link to categories.html&catcode=CATCODEHERE, which
> retrieves the subcats with description and displays them.
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> Any ideas or experiences with this layout are appreciated. If
> anyone is interested I can post more details on how I achieve that.
We do it like that too. Yes, the layout and concept work fine for
catalogs. Conceptually, however, it stands IC on its head; categories
become structurally the most important item.
That in and of itself creates a **huge** issue that IC
avoids: how do you make sensible categories? Ultimately
we just imported DMOZ for our category structure. Let someone
smarter than us do the librarian work. :-)
I've not a clue about how to do it in IC markup but we've
done it in perl, largely outside of minivend/IC. We do lots
of background work and "pre-cooking". IC is very
"self-sufficient" and self contained and not really well
suited for that. perl/DBI is.
You might want to look back in the archives maybe a year back
there was a thread on various ways to support multiple/arbitrary
layers of categories. On a single catalog basis you can go
quite far with a number of the solutions.
cfm
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> Thanks in advance.
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