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Dec 26, 2001, 7:38 AM

scottward

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Dec 26, 2001, 7:38 AM

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Affecting order of search results

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!..

Now, back to work...

I use the PPC Plugin and BigWhat plugin (Actually my own that gets results from other search engines..)and I need to split up the results.. I would like to place paid-for links abaove BigWhat results and regular links below bigwhat results... Any ideas for the direction I should be aiming??

-Scott

Dec 27, 2001, 9:43 AM

Alex

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Dec 27, 2001, 9:43 AM

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Hi,

I would use loops to accomplish this:

Code:
<%-- Display paid results --%> 
<%loop link_results_loop%> 
  <%if Bid%> 
     display link 
   <%endif%> 
<%endloop%> 

<%-- Display 3rd party results --%> 
<%loop bigwhat_results_loop%> 
   display link 
<%endloop%> 

<%-- Display rest of links --%> 
<%loop link_results_loop%> 
   <%ifnot Bid%> 
      display link 
    <%endif%> 
<%endloop%>

Hope that helps,

Alex
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Dec 27, 2001, 10:14 AM

scottward

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Dec 27, 2001, 10:14 AM

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Thank you for the response to both posts...

I added the loop code and it seems that it never makes it into the loop?!?

Did I misunderstand how to display the results inside the loop??

my code:

Code:
     <table width="70%" border=0> 
        <% if link_results%> 
        <tr> 
          <td width="100%" valign=top colspan="2"> 
                   <%link_results%> 
               <%bigwhat_results%> 
            <%-- Display paid results --%> 
              <p>Payed: 
               <%loop link_results_loop%> 
                  <%if Bid%> 
                   <%link_results%> 
                  <%endif%> 
               <%endloop%> 
            </td> 
        </tr> 
        <%endif%> 
        <tr>   
          <td width="100%" valign=top colspan="2"> 
           <p>3rd Party: 
               <%loop bigwhat_results_loop%> 
                 <%bigwhat_results%> 
               <%endloop%> 
           </td> 
        </tr>  
        <tr>   
          <td width="100%" valign=top colspan="2"> 
        <%-- Display paid results --%> 
              <p>Free: 
               <%loop link_results_loop%> 
                  <%if not Bid%> 
                   <%link_results%> 
                  <%endif%> 
               <%endloop%> 
            </td> 
        </tr> 
      </table> 

Dec 27, 2001, 10:15 AM

Alex

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Dec 27, 2001, 10:15 AM

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Hi,

Can you add a <%GT::Template::dump%> and see if the loop variables are defined?

Cheers,

Alex
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Dec 27, 2001, 10:24 AM

scottward

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Dec 27, 2001, 10:24 AM

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I added <%GT::Template::dump%>

and it dumped many variables, but nothing pertaining to a loop....

??

-Scott

Dec 27, 2001, 10:41 AM

Alex

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Dec 27, 2001, 10:41 AM

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Hi,

Ah, it seems the PPC plugin does not provide you with the loops. I'll get it updated shortly so the loop variables are available.

Cheers,

Alex
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Dec 27, 2001, 12:55 PM

scottward

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Dec 27, 2001, 12:55 PM

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Can you show me how to make those vars available. I may have made some mods to the code that may otherwise be eliminated...

I hope they are not extensive changes....

-Scott

Dec 27, 2001, 12:58 PM

Alex

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Dec 27, 2001, 12:58 PM

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Hi,

No, basically it just means in ppc_query in PPC.pm returning:

link_results_loop => \@links_loop,
category_results_loop => \@category_loop

where @links_loop and @category_loop are created by:

push @links_loop, $link;

right after the call to SiteHTML::display.

Hope this helps,

Alex
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Dec 27, 2001, 2:01 PM

scottward

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Dec 27, 2001, 2:01 PM

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I feel like a dope... Now that the loop works... (Thank you for that...) I cannot get each link seperate... I am using <%link_results%> inside the loop... I have a feeling that is incorrect...

-Frustrated...

-Scott
UPDATE:

I found the info on displaying just the link...

<%include link.html%> instead of <%link_results%>

-Less Frustrated...

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scottward: Dec 27, 2001, 3:00 PM

Dec 27, 2001, 2:15 PM

scottward

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Dec 27, 2001, 2:15 PM

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Also It doesn't seem like <%ifnot Bid%> works either???

What am I missing.....

-Scott

UPDATE:

Problem was in the PPC.pm code... on my part...

<%ifnot %> works fine

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scottward: Dec 27, 2001, 3:07 PM

Dec 27, 2001, 4:13 PM

Mel_g

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Dec 27, 2001, 4:13 PM

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I've updated the PPC plugin, could you send me your email address so that I can send you the updated version?

Thanks,

Mel

mel@gossamer-threads.com
Mel Goulet
Developer - Gossamer Threads, Inc.