You can do something similar to above.

Create a global called 'calculate_category_offset'
In your category template, place the following code:
In the link.html template, put the following code:

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Hi,Yogi!

I just did what you sugested and now links on category.html are showing numbered, the only problem is if i go to the next page (from page 1 to page 2),the links starts counting from 1 again it doesnt carry over the couting from one page to another.

is there a way to make it carry counting like on search_results.html?

Thanks again yogi.

Can you put <%GT::Template::dump%> on the category.html template, go to the second page, and tell me what it says for 'title'?

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Can't you use the nh param instead of regexing the title?

That's what you would think, but there is no 'nh' tag on that page, you have to parse the 'title'. Let me know if you know a better way.

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Its not a tag - nh is an input parameter. It will be generated when you click the span bar. If it doesn't exist that means you are on page one.

my $nh = $IN->param('nh') || 1;

heres what i have for 'Title' on page two

Internet: Page 2

That's not true.

The links on the span bar point to

g=Category/Sub_Cat/more2.html;

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Try changing:

Ivan
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My bad - I thought the category pages worked like search results.

I think the reason why they don't is that it works for both static and dynamic pages.

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

still the same Yogi

on page2 it continue to count from 1 again

I forgot to tell you that you need to use the global as

<%calculate_category_offset($title)%>

Maybe that's the problem?

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

I just changed the global from

calculate_category_offset

to

<%calculate_category_offset($title)%>


and still not working yogi

Hmmm, I would just find the template file where the <UL> is specified for the list of links and change it to <OL>... UL is an Un-numbered List and OL is an Ordered List, i.e. numbered list Should take you about 2 minutes and not require you to change any Perl. If you change the Perl code, you create a mess for yourself when it is time to upgrade to the next version...

Hi-

I use the globals/mods that Yogi provided in this thread to number both my search results and the links on the category pages, and it has worked great.

But now I have a condition in my Links loop where it will omit any links that don't have the field Active set equal to 'Yes':

<%set category_page = 1%>
<%calculate_category_offset($title)%>
<%loop links_loop%>
<%if Active = 'Yes'%>
<%include link.html%>
<%endif%>
<%endloop%>

The problem is that if, for example, the second link has the field Active set equal to 'No', then it isn't included, and then the numbering gets thrown off. So, when the second link is omitted, the numbering of the link results looks like:

1. Link Title - Description
3. Link Title - Description
4. Link Title - Description
etc.

Does anyone know if there would be a way to keep the numbering in order even some links are omitted in the loop?

--Frank

You can use the following as a quick and dirty hack:
This will work well on one page, but not across multiple pages, i.e. the offset on the second page will be wrong. If you wanted to solve this in a clean way you would need a plugin.

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Thanks Yogi,

I'll go with your quick fix now. I appreciate it.

--Frank

For counting links on category pages
find that in build.pm

$display{total} = $numlinks = $catlink_db->hits;

And add this

##### offset #####
$display{offset} = $offset;

Now you have a tag nemd offset in yout category.html and link.html

Try now something like:
<%if search_page%><%row_num + $search_offset%>
<%else%><%row_num + $offset%>.<%endif%>

For cool pages find in build.pm this one:

return Links::SiteHTML::display ('cool', { total => $total, grand_total => $GRAND_TOTAL, link_results => $output,
title => $title, title_linked => $title_l, percent => $percent, next_span => $toolbar,
link_results_loop => \@link_loop
});

and substitute it with:

my $offset = ($opts->{nh} - 1) * $opts->{mh};
return Links::SiteHTML::display ('cool', { total => $total, grand_total => $GRAND_TOTAL, link_results => $output,
title => $title, title_linked => $title_l, percent => $percent, next_span => $toolbar,
offset => $offset,
link_results_loop => \@link_loop
});

Finally i do the new page, too. But with a real ugly php inside. ;-)
and only for not spanning pages.
Have someone done the count for the new page?
It seems there are al ot of things not be passed from the new.html to link.html

Another problem for me: I cant show the links with a loop.
Anyone a clue how to do that?

There is a tag named links, but i dont know how to pass it to the link.html