[ic] Displaying multiple sku's

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Steven Potter)]

Kevin Walsh wrote:

>>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. :-)
> 
> 

Thanks, that will get me started.


Steven Potter