Okay...here's what I'm trying to do.

I've got a field for ISBN number in my database and I want that to be the value that is built on my pages.

in category.html, I have:

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/amazon/amazon.cgi?input_mode=item&input_item=<%links%>&input_templates=3" -->

in link.html, i have

<%ISBN%>,

What I want on my page is a link like this:

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/amazon/amazon.cgi?input_mode=item&input_item=1576751457,1574712934,0310205956,0070464081,&input_templates=3" -->

What I get is this:

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/amazon/amazon.cgi?input_mode=item&input_item=1576751457,
1574712934,
0310205956,
0070464081,
&input_templates=3" -->

In other words, the code breaks the line after each link entry and messes up the ssi include.

Any ideas?

According the message Stealth sent me, this won't work. apparently the link.html will always insert a line break after each record. Maybe someone can give me a different idea as to how you would build an ssi include link on your category page using a single field from each record in a category. It needs to be on one line on the page, separated by commas.

example:

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/script.cgi?items=item1,item2,item3,item4" -->

this is with Items 1,2,3, and 4 being the same field in 4 different records in the database. In my case the ISBN#

I've been using links 2.0 for at least two years and have found that there is not much you cannot make it do. That's why I use it all through my site. This one I can't figure out.

If anyone is wondering, this is working on my page now, but only with one item at a time. So I have a ssi include for each link with really slows down the page. see http://smallgroups.com/bookstore/Software/ to see what I mean. I really need to be able to put 10 in one line separated by commas.