Gossamer Forum: Products: Links 2.0: Customization: Category tag for dynamic advertising

Aug 28, 2007, 8:35 PM

jsprague

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Aug 28, 2007, 8:35 PM

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Category tag for dynamic advertising

Hello,

We are trying to run some dynamic advertising that will return products based on the category name the user is browsing. I have almost got it to work, but have run into a problem..

In the URL provided by our advertiser their is a keyword= section and I want to insert the name of the subcategory being browsed. What I have at the moment is:

......&banner_size=300x250&form_keyword=<%category_name%>&banner_topc.....

but this returns:

.......&banner_size=300x250&form_keyword=Applications/Email&banner_topc...... when I am at: http://www.techtutorials.net/Applications/Email/.

What tag can I use instead of category_name that would just return "Email" in this case instead of "Applications/Email"?

Thanks for your help!!
Jason

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jsprague: Aug 28, 2007, 8:36 PM

Aug 29, 2007, 9:37 AM

PerlFlunkie

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Aug 29, 2007, 9:37 AM

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Re: [jsprague] Category tag for dynamic advertising In reply to

Add this subroutine to nph-build.cgi:

Code:
 sub build_last_cat { 
# -------------------------------------------------------- 
# Returns the last cat from a string of the current category  

    my $input = shift; 
    my (@dirs, $dir, $output, $path, $last);
    @dirs = split (/\//, $input); 
    $last = &build_clean(pop @dirs);
    $output = qq|$last|; 
     
    return $output; 
}

In the same file, put this in sub_build_category_pages:

Code:
            close FOOT; 
        }            
        $title_linked           = &build_linked_title 
($cat); 
  $last_cat               =&build_last_cat ($cat);
        $title                  = &build_unlinked_title ($cat); 
        $total                  = ($#{$links{$cat}} + 1) / ($#db_cols + 1); 
        $category_name          = $cat;

Put this in site_html_templates.pl, sub site_html_category:

Code:
last_cat  =>  $last_cat,

Now change your template code for the ad link to use the tag ...keywords=<%last_cat%>

Leonard
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Aug 29, 2007, 12:27 PM

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Aug 29, 2007, 12:27 PM

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Re: [PerlFlunkie] Category tag for dynamic advertising In reply to

I found some clearer instructions from a few years ago...
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...?post=274925#p274925

Leonard
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Aug 29, 2007, 3:23 PM

jsprague

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Aug 29, 2007, 3:23 PM

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Re: [PerlFlunkie] Category tag for dynamic advertising In reply to

Wow... Thanks for the awesome help.. That looks like exactly what I need!

Guess I need to work on my searching skills.. I searched the forum for an hour and never found that old post.. :)