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[spoonernyc]

Hi there-

I realize I am about to get "boo"-ed out of here but I am building a store that will only have about 12 products and all of the product page layouts are very different (highly graphic based*), so the efficacy of templating is kinda lost on me. Does anyone have any experience with building static PHP pages and then just using the variables from x-cart to populate the data? All of the smarty templates are just made up of TOO MANY modules and variables. I dont need all of this extra stuff... just a product listing, shopping cart and checkout... no mailing lists. top sellers, etc etc

thanks for any help

spoonernyc


* NOTE I tried to disuade the client from going with a totally graphicly crazy layout store but this is what they want.

[B00MER]

http://smarty.php.net

With 13 {if $product.productid 1} (replace 1 with id of course) ... statements you could easily make product.tpl setup to display product listing setups.

hth.

[spoonernyc]

oh I see... so I could contain all of my layouts within one tpl file..
and just use "if then"-s to discern which product...
thanks very much!

now if every product page has addt. info links that go to once again (*sigh) a distinct layout pages

can I use if $page =2 (second page layout) $page=3 (third page layout) for example in this URL
http://www.sharpsusa.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=16133&cat=249&page=1

is the page variable used in other places?

thanks

ps I LOVE your little doctor character it is such a great icon for your company!

[B00MER]

You could easily use extra fields for this as you have a limit of 10 additional fields or just simply hardcode the links and info in the product.tpl page:

{if $product.productid eq "16133"}
Product Title: {$product.product}
Some link
etc...
{elseif $product.productid eq "16134"}
Product Title: {$product.product}
Some Other links
etc...
{/if}

This is the basic jest, however if your client adds a new product your gonna need to make adjustments by hand since its not dynamic.

hth.