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Submitted by clare on Fri, 2008-03-14 15:07 in

Hi,
I am testing something and in order to do so want to be able to see the merchant name in the search results.

I tried to just add
<?php print $mainProduct["merchant"]; ?><br />

in searchresults.php but that does not show the merchant up in the results.

Do I need do something in search.php as well, or have I made error in the merchant code there?

Thankyou in advance :)

Submitted by support on Fri, 2008-03-14 19:14

Hi Clare,

The merchant name can be displayed in the search results; however as the search results are generated using a summary query it is not possible to define which of the merchants the product is available from is in the merchant variable.

Instead of $mainProduct["merchant"], within html/searchresults.php you need to use $product["merchant"] within the loop. If you're using Price Tapestry in what I call "store mode" - i.e. as where there is only ever one merchant per product, then this would work fine...

Cheers,
David.

Submitted by clare on Sat, 2008-03-15 13:03

Oh I see, I hadnt considered that, it was only to check a few products that werent linking through correctly to check which feed was responsible, to narrow down my search a bit. I only just noticed after uploading many feeds that some had a # in the product name, that caused a problem when the name is clicked. It is easy to filter out, but rather than put the filter on all previous merchants I was going to only do it on those that had the problem, but I probably need to put the filter on them all anyway, as in future the # could crop up.

Thanks