I am wondering if this can even be done.
I have one category that contains a large number of products. In order to make browsing by product a bit easier I was wondering if I could somehow create a link that would filter all the products in that category by the first letter of their name/
Because this is a main category to me I was thinking of putting something like this in the index sidebar
:
Browse Products in Category 1 by Name
A (link - to display all products in Category 1 that start with A)
B (link - to display all products in Category 1 that start with B)
and on thru the alphabet...
Thanks again David for all the help. I really appreciate it, my site is coming along thanks to you.
Steven
Hi Steven,
A very simply mod would support this in fact. In search.php, look for the following code on line 43:
if (isset($parts[2])) if ($parts[2]) $where .= "AND search_name LIKE '%".database_safe(tapestry_search($parts[2]))."%'";...and REPLACE this with:
if (isset($parts[2])){
if (strlen($parts[2])==1)
{
$where .= "AND search_name LIKE '".database_safe(tapestry_search($parts[2]))."%'";
}
elseif($parts[2])
{
$where .= "AND search_name LIKE '%".database_safe(tapestry_search($parts[2]))."%'";
}
}
With that in place, you can now link to the search results for a given category with products beginning with, say, letter A as follows:
search.php?q=category:Some+Category:ACheers,
David.