Pagination - i'm doing something wrong

[shawn41]

I've researched the forum and have trialed-and-errored for an hour. I can't get this to work.

The pagination works, but for pages that do not have more than 10 products, the pagination text ("More Product Pages") is still showing up.

I've set up the pages' layout to show 10 products per page, and here's the code i'm using:

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[-- IF PAGE.ProductsPerPage 0 --]
# do nothing
[-- ELSE --]
<p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="4">More Product Pages: [-- PrevNext NoCenter --]</p><br>
[-- END_IF --]

[JeremeD]

They way your code is set up, it's going to show the code you have in the ELSE part of your statement any time there are ANY products assigned to the page. Instead of adding the "More Product Pages:" text into the template you should add that into one of the store text fields so it will only show up when there is some pagination to generate.

Go under Preferences > Store Text, and you can edit the text for the Page, Prev, and Next fields.

Jereme

[shawn41]

Alright, this doesn't make any sense to me. I erased the information out of the code in the ELSE statement ""More Product Pages". I went to the store text page in the back office and I see options for: Prev, PrevSet, Next, NextSet, and that's about it for Paginaton. Now I'm getting page numbers. You can see here at the bottom. I just don't get it.

http://www.leatherandlacesite.com/store ... atches.htm

[Jim]

The Prev and Next text only are displayed if there are more than 2 pages of products. Since the page you reference only has 2 pages they are not displayed. Try setting the number of products per page to a lower number and you will see what I mean.

The Prev Set and Next Set will only appear if you have more pages than the number you set for the max links to display at a time.

[shawn41]

Okay, that makes sense. It just looks goofy down there with just a "1, 2" when there are only two pages of products.

[loren_d_c]

As far as your original question goes, there is no tag specifically to determine if the [-- PrevNext --] tag will result in links.

However if all your pages have the same number in the Products Per Page
pagination settings, then you could put something like this in your
custom page template before your [-- PrevNext --] tag (this example
assumes your Products Per Page setting is 10, if yours is higher or lower
you would add or remove some ELSE_IFs, respectively):

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[-- IF PAGE.NumProducts 0 --]
[-- ELSE_IF PAGE.NumProducts 1 --]
[-- ELSE_IF PAGE.NumProducts 2 --]
[-- ELSE_IF PAGE.NumProducts 3 --]
[-- ELSE_IF PAGE.NumProducts 4 --]
[-- ELSE_IF PAGE.NumProducts 5 --]
[-- ELSE_IF PAGE.NumProducts 6 --]
[-- ELSE_IF PAGE.NumProducts 7 --]
[-- ELSE_IF PAGE.NumProducts 8 --]
[-- ELSE_IF PAGE.NumProducts 9 --]
[-- ELSE_IF PAGE.NumProducts 10 --]
[-- ELSE --]
    Go to page:
[-- END_IF --]

So basically this IF and ELSE_IFs will do nothing as long as the number
of items assigned to the page is 10 or less, but if it is over 10 then it
would fall into the final ELSE and print out the text that you want to
put prior to the PrevNext links.

-Loren