Happy New Year...love your products and services.

I have created a business directory and the home page displays a list of entries from the directory. Instead of a list from the directory, I'd like to show perhaps three "featured businesses" on the Directory Home Page.

I didn't see anything on the configuration page that would allow me to do this. Is this something I can do myself? If not, can you write a custom program to allow that?

I hope I explained this properly...also I may be in the wrong section so please accept my apology.

Thanks

Hi,

You'd need to do a little tweaking but it should be pretty easy. About line 231 or so of csDirectory, you'll see

right below that add



I think my logic there is right - LOL. Anyway.. to view only the featured listings you would add &sf=1 to the normal view URL for csDirectory.

If you want to limit the number of featured sites it shows then you could add a counter and make it something like

Let me know if any of that works!

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Thanks so much...I'll try it. If you hear a loud squeal ...I got it right;
a loud scream means I screwed it up!

Now this is how csDirectory.cgi looks now:
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if($in{'feature'} eq 'Yes'){
$tmpl = $ft;
}
else{
$tmpl = $rt;
}

if(($in{'sf'} == 1)&&($in
{'feature'} ne 'Yes')){
next;
}

($in{'sf'} == 1)&&($in{'feature'} eq 'Yes')&&($in{'cnt'}++);
if(($in{'sf'} == 1)&&($in{'feature'} ne 'Yes')&&($in{'cnt'} > 3)){
next;
}
=======================
but I'm not sure of what's suppose to happen that will let me display only certain entries? I dumped the cache, nothing happened.

Forgive me, but I know nothing about coding...it's all geek ...uhhh greek to me!
I don't mind paying a fee to get it to work.

Don't forget to add &sf=1 to your URL (after csDirectory.cgi?command=view )

Pierre

There is probably something wrong with my login there - LOL. Anyway, if don't mind emailing me directly at angrick1@cgiscript.net with your login details i'll try to get it working for you.

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