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Orbitalz
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Posted 08/08/05 - 11:12 AM:	#1
Hey, haven't used wsnlinks in a while. Let's say I do a search for "pork". For all the results that show up, how can I display a vertical list of all the categories that are in the search result?

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Posted 08/08/05 - 01:23 PM:	#2
Perhaps you need an example or illustration, because what it sounds like you're saying doesn't make much sense to me. Why not do a category search if all you want to list is categories?
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Posted 08/08/05 - 04:18 PM:	#3
Yea, I need to further explain it. Let's say the person searchers for "animals" and the search results looks something like this: ---Example--- Pork & Beans Shop here for great pork and beans plus animals. Main / Shopping / Food Turtle Town Nothing but great animals, like turtles. Main / Animals / Turtles BirdHouse Watch Great bird houses for sale for you animal lovers. Main / Outdoor / Products / Birds Now, on the left-hand side of that search result, I would like to have a vertical list of all the categories that are in that search result. Which would be: Shopping Food Animals Turtles Outdoor Birds Products Having the list display alphanumerically would be nice.

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Posted 08/08/05 - 04:23 PM:	#4
So the search results page would end up looking like this: \|Shopping \| Pork & Beans \|Food \| Shop here for great pork and beans plus animals. \|Animals \| Main / Shopping / Food \|Turtles \| \|OutDoors \| Turtle Town \|Birds \| Nothing but great animals, like turtles. \|Products \| Main / Animals / Turtles \| \| \| \| BirdHouse Watch \| \| Great bird houses for sale for you animal lovers. \| \| Main / Outdoor / Products / Birds Page: 1 2 3 4 5 etc

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Posted 08/08/05 - 04:31 PM:	#5
for some reason, that didn't turn out right, but it's supposed to look like this: http://www.adultluxury.com/result.htm

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Posted 08/09/05 - 10:36 AM:	#7
That's not possible in any way I can think of. Maybe a javascript that writes it to the left hand div as it appears in the right hand div.
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Posted 08/09/05 - 03:02 PM:	#8
damn, Well... anyone have any ideas on how to do it in javascript or even php?

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Posted 08/10/05 - 08:55 PM:	#9
Making considerable changes to search.php to build a list of involved categories and then display them could do it too of course.
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Posted 08/11/05 - 08:40 AM:	#10
Do you think you could hack search.php for me? I'll give you a cookie!:nod:

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Posted 08/11/05 - 02:53 PM:	#11
That kind of custom work costs considerably more than a cookie: http://www.wsnlinks.com/?section=customcoding
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