Re: Display [price] in banner ad
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = > >Thanks, this does work and displays the price. However, I also have a > >markup of > >the price and the markup works fine in the details.tpl but not with the > >banner ad > >and I can't seem to figure out what I need to change to get it to work. > > The reason is that just putting [price] into your banner ad is not enough > for WebCatalog to know what the price should be. It needs to know what > database to look in, what sku to look for, etc. That's why you use the > [lookup] to find the price. So from a simplistic standpoint, if you > substitute that big [lookup] everywhere you need [price] in your big math > equation, then you'd get the right information. > > There is a way to simplify this with an [include], though, so you don't > have to do so much typing: > > -- MarkupCalc.inc -- > (put that big bunch of [ShowIf] with [math] text here) > > Then anywhere you need the marked-up price (even on your details.tpl page), use > [include file=MarkupPrice.inc&price=[Lookup > db=catalog.txt&lookinfield=sku&value=[sku]&returnfield=price]] > > You're basically making a 'macro' that takes a SKU and looks up its > marked-up price atuomatically.Ok, sounds simple enough. But I get an error that says, On Special for only $Error: template ' file=MarkupCalc.inc&price=363.19' not found Here is the code I have in the banner ad:
On Special for only $[include file=MarkupCalc.inc&price=[lookup db=catalog.txt&lookinfield=sku&value=455303&returnfield=price]] I made a MarkupCalc.inc file and pasted all the big bunch of [ShowIf] with [math] stuff in it.Am I missing something????????Thanks ! Mark B.
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> >Thanks, this does work and displays the price. However, I also have a > >markup of > >the price and the markup works fine in the details.tpl but not with the > >banner ad > >and I can't seem to figure out what I need to change to get it to work. > > The reason is that just putting [price] into your banner ad is not enough > for WebCatalog to know what the price should be. It needs to know what > database to look in, what sku to look for, etc. That's why you use the >
[lookup] to find the price. So from a simplistic standpoint, if you > substitute that big
[lookup] everywhere you need [price] in your big math > equation, then you'd get the right information. > > There is a way to simplify this with an
[include], though, so you don't > have to do so much typing: > > -- MarkupCalc.inc -- > (put that big bunch of
[showif] with
[math] text here) > > Then anywhere you need the marked-up price (even on your details.tpl page), use > [include file=MarkupPrice.inc&price=[Lookup > db=catalog.txt&lookinfield=sku&value=[sku]&returnfield=price]] > > You're basically making a 'macro' that takes a SKU and looks up its > marked-up price atuomatically.Ok, sounds simple enough. But I get an error that says, On Special for only $Error: template ' file=MarkupCalc.inc&price=363.19' not found Here is the code I have in the banner ad:
On Special for only $[include file=MarkupCalc.inc&price=[lookup db=catalog.txt&lookinfield=sku&value=455303&returnfield=price]] I made a MarkupCalc.inc file and pasted all the big bunch of
[showif] with
[math] stuff in it.Am I missing something????????Thanks ! Mark B.
Mark Bergkvist
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