[totaltec]

James, you are welcome. If you have a large volume of special messages then you should try to find a php solution, like assigning the message to each product in the db. Then you can just loop through the products and foreach output the products special message.

Let's just do it like this (untested psuedo code):

{foreach from=$products item=product}
  {if $product.productid eq 8 or $product.productid eq 1 or $product.productid eq 7}
    {assign var=ordered8 value="You bought a boat!"}    
  {/if}
  {if $product.productid eq 2 or $product.productid eq 3 or $product.productid eq 4}
    {assign var=ordered7 value="You bought some life jackets!"}    
  {/if}  
{/foreach}

{if $ordered8 ne '' and $ordered7 ne ''}
   You bought some life jackets and a boat! 
{elseif $ordered8 ne ''}
   {$ordered8}
{elseif $ordered7 ne ''}
   {$ordered7}
{else}
  Go get a boat, and some $*%# life jackets, loser!
{/if}

Make sense?