Hi All

I'm trying to get jump.cgi to do a Random Jump to the Detailed pages (instead of the URL).

What I've found so far is the code in jump.pm:

What I need to figure out is how to adjust this so that it picks up the detail page, not the url.

I see the URL field mentioned, but I haven't found where any URL index is built (like in flatfile Links). What I did in the flatfile version is copy the build_url_index routine and make some changes, rename it build_detail_index, and then create a detail.db in /data/

I'm trying to customize SQL as a storefront or catalog system. So, having random jumps to the detail pages would be neat.

Thanks for any suggestions.

DT

Hi,

Use:

Cheers,

Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.

Thanks, Alex

This works great for static detail pages.

What if you wanted to have a random jump to a dynamic detail page?

This is a concern because of space considerations.

Many thanks for your help

DT

DogTags,

I believe all you need to do is edit the following line of codes:



to something like:



Now, that is if you have defined the "detailed" cgi script as
a global variable...
========================================
Buh Bye!

Cheers,
Me

Close, it should be:

$goto = $CFG->{db_cgi_url} . "/page.cgi?g=Detailed/$link_id.html";

Cheers,

Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.

Thank you very kindly, AnthroRules and Alex

I plugged in what you suggested, Alex, and it's a bulls-eye - Yeah!

Now, I have just a few more things to work on, and I'll have this thing rolling...

Thanks Tons

DT

Okay, here's an interesting problem.

Alex's code works super to build and jump to the random detail page dynamically.

However, I use the title_linked tag on the detail pages, and, when the page is dynamically generated by a random jump, the title_linked is to static pages, but should be to page.cgi

If I build my site dynamically, the progression from home to category to link maintains the title_linked to page.cgi

Only when I use the random jump to dynamic detail does the title_linked on those detail pages point to static pages (which do not exist).

What might be happening? Is there a way to get the random jump to a dynamically generated detail page to keep title_linked pointing to page.cgi ?

Thanks very much.

DT

Hi

Just bringing this one to the top...

Thanks

DT

Hi,

You need to pass in d=1 to the script to make it generate dynamic links. So change:

$goto = $CFG->{db_cgi_url} . "/page.cgi?g=Detailed/$link_id.html";

to:

$goto = $CFG->{db_cgi_url} . "/page.cgi?g=Detailed/$link_id.html&d=1";

Cheers,

Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.

Bee-U-Tee-Ful !!

Thanks, Alex

DT