[ic] Specify the URL to append before the product sku?

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Ron Phipps)]

> From: interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com
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> users-admin@interchange.redhat.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Walsh
> 
> > I'd like to be able to call a url like the following:
> > http://wwww.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/yourstore/products/00001.html and
> > have IC generate the product page based on the flypage like it does
> > normally.  The only difference being that all products would be
pulled
> > up in the products directory and not from the base pages directory.
Is
> > there a configuration directive to do such a thing?  The reason for
this
> > is we are going to use a search product which allows for parts of
the
> > site to be part of a group based on matching on the url.  We'd like
to
> > have product grouping, information grouping, company information,
etc.
> >
> You could create an ActionMap to map "products/sku.html" onto
> "my_flypage.html?arg=sku".  Try adding something like this to
> your catalog.cfg file:
> 
>     ActionMap products <<EOA
>     sub {
>         $Session->{arg} = shift;
>         $Session->{arg} =~ s/^.*\/|\..*$//g;
>         $CGI->{mv_nextpage} = 'my_flypage';
>         1;
>     }
>     EOA
> 
> You would then need to copy your current flypage.html to a new
> my_flypage.html page and add [fly-list]...[/fly-list] tags around
> the block of [item-*] tags in there, like this:
> 
>     [fly-list prefix="item" code="[data session arg]"]
>         code is: [item-code]<br>
>         other item tags...
>     [/fly-list]
> 
> Note that doing this will not disable the ordinary flypage
> mechanism.  If someone called "cgi-bin/yourstore/000001.html"
> then the flypage.html would be called as expected.

Thanks for the example.  I think I'll look at another way to do this
using meta tags for the grouping.

> 
> Also note that I haven't tried any of this. :-)
> 

Of course not, you leave the fun to me ;)

-Ron