Pagination giving "ghost" links...

[lordofdirt]

When I limit the number of products to display on a page I get the header "page name" with the numbers for the generated pages. Under these numbers I have a link to a page that does not exist on my site and one going to msn. I don't want these links, how can I fix it?



</div>
<p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">[-- PAGE.Text1 --]</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">[-- PAGE.Text2 --]</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">[-- PAGE.Text3 --]</font></p>

<h2 style="text-align:center">[-- PAGE.Name --]</h2>

[-- IF PAGE.ProductsPerPage 0 --]
# do nothing
[-- ELSE --]
<p style="text-align:center">[-- PrevNext --]</p>
[-- END_IF --]
[-- IF PAGE.DisplayPageFooter --]
[-- FOOTER --]
[-- END_IF --]

[loren_d_c]

Do you have an example address to a page with this problem so we could see it?

-Loren

[lordofdirt]

http://www.americannutrition.com/store/ ... s_M-N.html

[loren_d_c]

I don't think that these links come as the result of the pagination links. The HTML code that creates these 'ghost' links in the source of that page is distinctly after the pagination links. The HTML looks like something that would be created by Microsoft FrontPage:

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<center><small>
<A HREF="NAV4.HTML">HOME</A>
<A HREF="HTTP://WWW.MSN.COM">MSN</A>
<center><small>

My guess is either you have this HTML in the custom HTML you have placed in your footer (see Preferences -> Page Header & Footer), or in one of the other fields in this Page record (such as Text 1, Text 2, or Text 3), or you edited this page via Microsoft FrontPage after it was generated by ShopSite and that was how this bogus code was added.

-Loren

[lordofdirt]

Thanks! I should have no problem fixing that. I'll let you know either way.

[lordofdirt]

Alright man, thanks alot, it worked.

Now for another problem that's bugging me. On pages without products I still get the page name in h1 font, at the bottom of the page. I thought the code nulled it out if product count = 0

[-- IF PAGE.ProductsPerPage 0 --]
# do nothing
[-- ELSE --]
<h2 style="text-align:center">[-- PAGE.Name --]</h2>
<p style="text-align:center">[-- PrevNext --]</p>
[-- END_IF --]
[-- IF PAGE.DisplayPageFooter --]
[-- FOOTER --]
[-- END_IF --]


http://www.americannutrition.com/store/ ... _care.html

[loren_d_c]

[-- IF PAGE.ProductsPerPage 0 --] does not check to see if there are products on the page, rather it checks the 'Number of Products per generated page' pagination setting in your Page record.

If you want to see if there are products assigned to the page or not, try something like [-- IF PAGE.NumProducts 0 --].

-Loren

[lordofdirt]

So if I want to get rid of that header at the bottom of pages with 0 products I could say...


[-- IF PAGE.ProductsPerPage 0 --]
# do nothing
[-- IF PAGE.ProductsPerPage 0 --]
# do nothing
[-- ELSE --]
<h2 style="text-align:center">[-- PAGE.Name --]</h2>
<p style="text-align:center">[-- PrevNext --]</p>
[-- END_IF --]
[-- IF PAGE.DisplayPageFooter --]
[-- FOOTER --]
[-- END_IF --]

Will this work? I just want to get rid of that redundant heading if no products are on the page.

[loren_d_c]

No, you probably should't do it like that, for one you used the wrong IF tag again, and you don't have a matching end if for it. You would probably be better off with something like:

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[-- IF PAGE.ProductsPerPage 0 --]
# do nothing
[-- ELSE --]
     [-- IF PAGE.NumProducts 0 --]
#do not output the Page Name
     [-- ELSE --]
#there are products, so output the page name
     <h2 style="text-align:center">[-- PAGE.Name --]</h2>
     [-- END_IF --]
<p style="text-align:center">[-- PrevNext --]</p>
[-- END_IF --]

[-- IF PAGE.DisplayPageFooter --]
[-- FOOTER --]
[-- END_IF --]

Or there are probably several other ways to couch the logic to accomplish the same thing.

And this is assuming that it is the [-- PAGE.Name --] that you don't want to display if there are products on the page.

-Loren

[jake12]

Nice website you have

[lordofdirt]

thanks jake!

And thanks for all the help. Things are running smoothly now.