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[flamers]

I've spent a lot of time working through these boards getting tips on speeding up our site; thanks to everybody who has posted and shared their tips.

The one thing I can't find is a template mod to allow users to enable/disable thumbnails in the product list if - for example - they are using a dial-up connection. I am sure I lose customers through sheer boredom (apparently over 80% of my visitors spend less than 1min on my site) while they are waiting for pages to load. It would also be nice to give the user the option to show products either line by line or in a grid with three items per line.

I know I can achieve all this permanently by checking the options in admin, but I want to give the user some control over how he uses the store - the customer is the only one that knows what he wants after all!

Has anyone tackled this one at all, or anything like it?

Any and all help and ideas gratefully received.

[balinor]

First, please read the forum rules. This forum is for finished Mods only.

Second, please don't post your question in multiple forums, somone will answer your question just as quickly in one forum. Thank you!

http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=15775

[shan]

have a button that submits the page to itself and adds a var to the url and then use an {if} statement around the image call that checks for the existence of the var in the url

[flamers]

First, my apologies to Balinor and anyone else I annoyed by breaking the posting rules - I now make sure I read the posting rules first!

Thanks for the tip Shan, I had thought that perhaps the best way was to pass a variable in the URL. I'm not an adept though, I'm an entirely self-taught coder that learns through trial and (many) errors. Do you have any sample code or an example that I can crib from? I'll be having a play anyway when time permits and I'll post the code here if I find a working solution.

[shan]

once you have a var in the url you can use smarty in your templates to check for it as follows

if your url = http://yoursite.com/?myvar=value

{if $smarty.get.myvar}

do this

{else}

do this instead

{/if}

http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.smarty.request.php

[flamers]

Excellent, thanks again Shan, you've saved me hours of searching and fiddling.

Best wishes,

Alan