[ic] Adding a category header to results page

[Ed LaFrance]

At 07:52 AM 3/15/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Here is my problem:  I am trying to set up my results.html page so that it
>can identify what the category is and produce a unique header according to
>that category.  I found some code in one of the back postings that seems to
>work...
>
>[if explicit]
>[condition]
>$category = '[item-field category]';
>return 1 if $category eq Accent;
>return 0;
>[/condition]
>Accent page header
>[else]
>Not Accent page
>[/else]
>[/if]
>
>(Although I understand I may have some problems putting in multiple else
>statements....but for another time)
>
>My problem is I have to put this statement within the [search-list] tags for
>it to correctly read the [item-field category] and when inside the
>[search-list] it ends up repeating with each product listing on the page
>instead of just showing once as a header at the top.  Please help me, I know
>I'm missing the obvious answer here.  How else can I read the category
>listing for the page??????
>
>Thanks,
>
>Nikki

What happens when the search returns multiple categories?  I suggest you 
take a different approach; the [item-change] tag was designed for things 
like this. When used in conjunction with tf=category in your search terms 
it can put a header line above each category group quite nicely:
http://interchange.redhat.com/cgi-bin/ic/docfly.html?mv_arg=icdatabase06.12

- Ed L.


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