Option Menu Formatting

[mactheweb]

I have some products with 5 or 6 options for the shopper to select. I'm using Manager version 8.3. Is it possible to make the menus display vertically, each on a new line or paragraph, rather than in one horizontal line across the page?

Or it is possible to hand code the menus and send the results to the system?

[Jim]

have you tried the tag

[-- Order_Option_Menu Column --]

instead of

[-- Order_Option_Menu line --]

Also using a "Call" and the tag [-- PRODUCT.OptionFiniteText --] you could pass the options to your own routine that will format them however you like.

[mactheweb]

Thanks for the quick answer, Jim

Since I haven't used any tables in the layout do I need to put the
[-- Order_Option_Menu Column --]
inside of one?

I've tried to use a call before and never quite got it. Is there any documentation with a complete example?

[Jim]

Both [-- Order_Option_Menu line --] and [-- Order_Option_Menu column --] place the output in a complete table so you shouldn't have to create one for that.

For an example of the CALL tag, I used the code below to get the add to cart image before there was an option to get it directly

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 <input type=image [-- CALL inf.pl ( OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_PATH , PRODUCT.addtocartbutton ,strip) --]

the file inf.pl contains

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#!/usr/bin/perl

# This file will use the passed  directory path and image name to
#   display the ShopSite .inf file associated with the image.
#  i.e: [-- CALL inf.pl (OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_PATH, go.gif {,strip}) --]
# if the optional paramater "strip" is added then the <img and > are removed
# before the contents of the .inf file is displayed.

#print @ARGV;
#print "\n";

$filename = $ARGV[0] . "/media/.inf." .  $ARGV[1];

#print "$filename\n";

open(INPUT,$filename);
@input = <INPUT>;
if (($ARGV[2] =~ /strip/is))
{
  $coutput = $input[0];
  if (! ($coutput =~ /\<img.*\>/is))
  {
    print $coutput;
  }
  else
  {
    $coutput =~ s/.*\<\s*img(.*?)\>.*/$1/is;

   print $coutput;
  }

}
else
{
  print @input;
}
close (INPUT);



[mactheweb]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the code and answer. I've used the Order_Option_Menu column successfully.

Your example helps me understand CALL better. I'll play with it and VAR a bit over the weekend. It's been nearly 10 years since I've used Perl so I'll have to get a bit more current with CGI.

best,
michael

[Jim]

You don't have to use perl, you can use what ever language you want, C, php, perl, any thing that can accept parameters and pass the information back.

[JeremeD]

You don't have to use perl, you can use what ever language you want, C, php, perl, any thing that can accept parameters and pass the information back.

Jim,

I was unaware that PHP can be used with the call tag since it doesn't say this in the manual. This would have been extremely useful to me several times.

Does the call tag pass parameters to the script as if it were a function?

Should the script itself include opening and closing PHP tags?

I'm not familiar with PERL. Can you provide a simple example of how a php script looks that's receiving parameters from the call tag?