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#311271 - 08/13/06 01:53 PM Need Help Finishing Custom Mod
RoxSeibert Member Registered: 02/20/03 Posts: 178 Loc: highspire, pa	In 2-3 weeks I want to launch a new shopping cart for my site, along with a means of reselling storefront & shopping cart services to my community from mywebsitetools.com service pkg. Ubb.c 6.7.2 - www.dragboatalley.com To integrate these new services with my existing site, I want to a add a "Shops Index" script that's tied into to my standard tabs menu. So I swooped a copy of AA's [6.7] [beta] ubb.index v1.5 and laid out the main index page to look like the games mod http://dragboatalley.com/cgi-bin/dbashops.cgi Ultimately, i got 2 types of "shops" to show up in here, with shop name & thumbnail image that links to a storefront (product list) page either embedded on my site, hosted on the service provider's site, or some other site. ( Demo Storefront ) So I'm looking for help to finish this script while I finish setting up the storefronts & informational portal pages that go with 'em. I need someone to do the real work of hooking this shell script up to a data file for the following requirements: Add an admin-only page where i can view/add/edit/delete the list of shops Data file fields include: unique id, shop type (0 \|\| 1), shop name, shop URL, image filename (thumb), activated/deactivated flag finish the main page to spin off the display of shops (just like games mod but using data file). Shops get listed in each column based on shop type field (0 = left column, 1 = right). plus handle multiple pages & only show me the 'activated' shops and sprinkle in a few wordlets for ease of long life cosmetics; Page Title, 2 Column Titles (shop types), location on disk of "shops" directory where thumbnail images be kept, etc. Here's the shell script i put together so far: http://dragboatalley.com/shops/dbashops.txt Let me know if you have any questions, or contact me by PM or email to boards @ dragboatalley.com w/ price quote on the job if your interested. And fwiw - I'm more than happy to play test/debug/polisher monkey here if someone just wants to whip up a down 'n dirty quickie blind stab at this. Tks! _________________________ ~=Rox http://dragboatalley.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi dangerously inspired by ubbdev, but i still absolutely HATE perl.
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#311291 - 08/15/06 04:37 PM Re: Need Help Finishing Custom Mod [Re: RoxSeibert]
AllenAyres I type Like navaho Registered: 03/10/00 Posts: 25448 Loc: Texas	Didya get any takers? It's been a while since most of us have looked at any perl code _________________________ - Allen - What Drives You?
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#311295 - 08/16/06 08:00 AM Re: Need Help Finishing Custom Mod [Re: AllenAyres]
RoxSeibert Member Registered: 02/20/03 Posts: 178 Loc: highspire, pa	nada (sigh) but i knew i was fishing a near empty pond before i posted this, but i hate perl so intensively figured it was worth a shot Meanwhile i did fiddle this abit myself and got the main shops index / shopping mall page to halfway work: http://dragboatalley.com/cgi-bin/dbashops2.cgi and showing folks on my site a sneak peak of this has already sold me a couple of shopping carts. So I guess I aint got no choice but to finish it myself can you move this topic to the new members forum for me? cuz there's a whole waft of perl idgit questions coming soonly. _________________________ ~=Rox http://dragboatalley.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi dangerously inspired by ubbdev, but i still absolutely HATE perl.
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#311296 - 08/16/06 04:42 PM Re: Need Help Finishing Custom Mod [Re: RoxSeibert]
AllenAyres I type Like navaho Registered: 03/10/00 Posts: 25448 Loc: Texas	hehe It's looking good already. I'll move this there now and just ask when you run across something _________________________ - Allen - What Drives You?
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#311298 - 08/16/06 06:01 PM

Re: Need Help Finishing Custom Mod [Re: AllenAyres]

RoxSeibert Offline

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Registered: 02/20/03
Posts: 178
Loc: highspire, pa

Ok I'm totally stuck on handling multiple pages, and this is all i need to finish my sub showmain that does the shopping mall main index.

I have $page var and $totpages var that tell me current page number to display and the total pages in the index.
plus I have a $shopcolcnt var for the number of shops per column. then I get to follow bit that parses the datafile

Code:

# one datafile how da heck to split it into pages
@datafile = &OpenFileAsArray("$vars_config{NonCGIPath}/shops/shoplist.cgi");

foreach $thisline(@datafile) {
	chomp($thisline);
	if ($thisline ne '') {
			@linearray = split(/\|\|/,$thisline);
			##output it if active shop
			if ($linearray[6]=1) {
				## weed out shop type for each column
				if ($linearray[1] == "0") {
					# we have a pit shop
					$pshops .= "<br><b><a href=\"$linearray[3]\">$linearray[2]</a></b><br>\n";
					$pshops .= "<br><a href=\"$linearray[3]\"><img src=\"http://dragboatalley.com/shops/$linearray[4]\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Click Here to visit this Shop\"</a><br><br><br>\n";
				} else {
					# we have a featured shop
					$fshops .= "<br><b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"$linearray[3]\">$linearray[2]</a></b><br>\n";
					$fshops .= "<br><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"$linearray[3]\"><img src=\"http://dragboatalley.com/shops/$linearray[4]\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Click Here to visit this Shop\"</a><br><br><br>\n";
				}
			}
	}
}

as-is, it dumps all shops on one page not matter what page requested. The only thing i did with the page handling vars was page number links at bottom of index.

_________________________
~=Rox
http://dragboatalley.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

dangerously inspired by ubbdev,
but i still absolutely HATE perl.

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#311299 - 08/16/06 11:07 PM Re: Need Help Finishing Custom Mod [Re: RoxSeibert]
AllenAyres I type Like navaho Registered: 03/10/00 Posts: 25448 Loc: Texas	I believe Ian (and LK and Burak ) helped me with a pagination routine in the links script, you might check that out _________________________ - Allen - What Drives You?
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#311301 - 08/16/06 11:39 PM Re: Need Help Finishing Custom Mod [Re: AllenAyres]
RoxSeibert Member Registered: 02/20/03 Posts: 178 Loc: highspire, pa	i dont think it's in the links script, but there's pagination in games mods. But the logic is different in those than what i need cuz it loops thru a directory list of files instead of spinning thru a data file. _________________________ ~=Rox http://dragboatalley.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi dangerously inspired by ubbdev, but i still absolutely HATE perl.
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#311312 - 08/18/06 11:51 AM Re: Need Help Finishing Custom Mod [Re: RoxSeibert]
RoxSeibert Member Registered: 02/20/03 Posts: 178 Loc: highspire, pa	ok i got past the above dilema by flat out cheating, and just setup one datafile per page. last two hurdles will be wordlets for all my hardcoded stuff, and admin ability to add/edit the list shops in a given data file. anything i need know about settting up a vars_wordlets_shops.cgi? if i do it just like other mods, will it automatically appear in control panel for me? TIA! _________________________ ~=Rox http://dragboatalley.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi dangerously inspired by ubbdev, but i still absolutely HATE perl.
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#311313 - 08/18/06 11:26 PM Re: Need Help Finishing Custom Mod [Re: RoxSeibert]
AllenAyres I type Like navaho Registered: 03/10/00 Posts: 25448 Loc: Texas	yes, you might check out the vars_wordlets_mods modification - it will give you all the inside stuff to get your new file to appear in the cp _________________________ - Allen - What Drives You?
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#311317 - 08/20/06 12:56 PM Re: Need Help Finishing Custom Mod [Re: AllenAyres]
RoxSeibert Member Registered: 02/20/03 Posts: 178 Loc: highspire, pa	ok does this look right? Code: %vars_wordlets_shops = ( q!shops_datafileprefix! => q!/shops/!, q!shops_pages! => 1, ); 1; I need the second var to be a number... do i store it like this, or still wrapped in q!! syntax? tks!!!! _________________________ ~=Rox http://dragboatalley.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi dangerously inspired by ubbdev, but i still absolutely HATE perl.
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#311321 - 08/20/06 08:59 PM Re: Need Help Finishing Custom Mod [Re: RoxSeibert]
AllenAyres I type Like navaho Registered: 03/10/00 Posts: 25448 Loc: Texas	You'll need to wrap the numbers, but yes, that's how you do it _________________________ - Allen - What Drives You?
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#311327 - 08/22/06 08:46 AM Re: Need Help Finishing Custom Mod [Re: AllenAyres]
RoxSeibert Member Registered: 02/20/03 Posts: 178 Loc: highspire, pa	thank you Allen for all your help, I'm nearly finished! Only major thing i have left is save handling on add new shop record to a datafile. But since I took the easy way out and split stuff into multiple datafiles for each page in my shopping mall index, and I control the number of pages in the index with a var in my wordlets file... I'm wondering how hard it is to have an html form where admin user can change the number of pages and update the wordlet var? I've been digging for an example somewhere of how to write out an update to a wordlet value but struck out _________________________ ~=Rox http://dragboatalley.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi dangerously inspired by ubbdev, but i still absolutely HATE perl.
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#311331 - 08/22/06 09:55 PM Re: Need Help Finishing Custom Mod [Re: RoxSeibert]
RoxSeibert Member Registered: 02/20/03 Posts: 178 Loc: highspire, pa	scratch last question, i just moved page count var to it's own datafile and made life easier good grief - i'm finally done! thanks again for your help Allen _________________________ ~=Rox http://dragboatalley.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi dangerously inspired by ubbdev, but i still absolutely HATE perl.
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#311332 - 08/23/06 09:46 AM Re: Need Help Finishing Custom Mod [Re: RoxSeibert]
AllenAyres I type Like navaho Registered: 03/10/00 Posts: 25448 Loc: Texas	I didn't do much, but you are welcome _________________________ - Allen - What Drives You?
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