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Hard coded search links...

Can you not use hard coded search links with X-Cart 4.0.9? I would like to add a "Quick Links" section to our site where a customer can click on a link and get search results based on the options established via the link.

Such as: All products less that $10.00 sorted by price.

Is this possible? Or is there a MOD available somewhere that would let me do this?

Re: Hard coded search links...

Quote:

Originally Posted by maazinesquick

Dave,

is this what you looking for?

http://www.cart-lab.com/lab/customer/pages.php?pageid=3

download a file named: Shop By Price Menu

I hope this will help

Kind regards
Ricky Calle

Re: Hard coded search links...

Quote:

Dave,

is this what you looking for?

http://www.cart-lab.com/lab/customer/pages.php?pageid=3

download a file named: Shop By Price Menu

I hope this will help

Kind regards
Ricky Calle

Hello Ricky,

Thanks for the link! Yeah, that's what I am looking for but that doesn't appear to work with version 4.0.9. I had already figured out how to make the links, I just couldn't get them to work.

That file appears to have been written for 3.5.x, so I guess it used to work... maybe they have changed something in version 4.x.x.

But thank you for your help!

Dave,
Yes they have changed search method in 4.x. Instead of GET method they implement POST method so I guess it's not possible to get serach result my clicking on link.

Okay... I finally came up with something that will work. But now after spending two days on this I find that an X-Cart user with the username TeleFirma had already done something very similar in this post:

http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=8969

Sure wish I had found that sooner! But here is what I did for anyone that wants to know:

I put this code into a file called quick_links.tpl

Quote:

{* $Id: quick_links.tpl,v 1.00 01/12/2005 22:53:29 max Exp $ *}

{capture name=menu}
<form style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" method="post" action="search.php" name="productsearchform1">
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="search" />
<input type="hidden" name="sort" value="price" />
<input type="hidden" name="sort_direction" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="posted_data[price_min]" value="0.00" />
<input type="hidden" name="posted_data[price_max]" value="9.99" />
Under $10.00
</form>

<form style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" method="post" action="search.php" name="productsearchform2">
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="search" />
<input type="hidden" name="sort" value="price" />
<input type="hidden" name="sort_direction" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="posted_data[price_min]" value="10.00" />
<input type="hidden" name="posted_data[price_max]" value="20.00" />
$10.00-$20.00
</form>

<form style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" method="post" action="search.php" name="productsearchform3">
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="search" />
<input type="hidden" name="sort" value="price" />
<input type="hidden" name="sort_direction" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="posted_data[price_min]" value="20.00" />
<input type="hidden" name="posted_data[price_max]" value="40.00" />
$20.00-$40.00
</form>

<form style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" method="post" action="search.php" name="productsearchform4">
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="search" />
<input type="hidden" name="sort" value="price" />
<input type="hidden" name="sort_direction" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="posted_data[price_min]" value="40.00" />
<input type="hidden" name="posted_data[price_max]" value="1500.00" />
Over $40.00
</form>
{/capture}

{ include file="menu.tpl" dingbats="dingbats_yarrow.gif" menu_title="Quick Links" menu_content=$smarty.capture.menu }

And then I put this into customer/home.tpl where I wanted it to show up.

Quote:

{ include file="customer/quick_links.tpl" }

That's it....