[ic] Displaying multiple sku's

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Kevin Walsh)]

> 
> I'm trying to figure out how I would go about creating something where I 
> could call ic like this:
> http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/ic?sku1=somesku&sku2=anothersku&sku3=yetanothersku
> 
> And then have it display the results page only displaying the sku's that 
> I passed in the url.  Is something like this possible?
> 
Anything is possible. :-)

Try starting with a page that just lists the SKUs in a loop.
Once you have that going, you can start to look up product
information.

A page that contains something like this will start you on
your way:

    [calc]
        $CGI->{'sku'} =~ s/\0/ /g;
        undef;
    [/calc]
    [loop arg="[cgi sku]"]
        [loop-code] - [loop-description]<br>
    [/loop]

That will take a URI like:

    pagename.html?sku=00-0010:sku=00-403:sku=98-101


...and will just show some SKU info, one SKU per line.  You can
use the various [loop-*] tags to display what you want, with no
limit on the number of SKUs passed into the page.

You could also modify the [calc] like this:

    [calc]
        $CGI->{'sku'} =~ s/,/ /g;
        undef;
    [/calc]

That would do the same job, but your URI args would have to look
like this instead:

    pagename.html?sku=00-0010,00-403,98-101

(Comma-separated list in one URI arg.)

Of course, you could modify it again to allow a combination of
the above two methods, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the
reader. :-)

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