Unique menu for each category

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   its a pretty common in this industry to do navigation this way. The top horizontal nav stays the same, but the left navigation is specific to your category.

http://www.bathandbodyworks.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=2484525
http://store.crabtree-evelyn.com/bath-and-body.html

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caughlan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 25-September-2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote caughlan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10-May-2008 at 7:12pm
	its a pretty common in this industry to do navigation this way. The top horizontal nav stays the same, but the left navigation is specific to your category. http://www.bathandbodyworks.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=2484525 http://store.crabtree-evelyn.com/bath-and-body.html

caughlan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 25-September-2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote caughlan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10-May-2008 at 8:42pm
	<%if session("customerType")="1" then%> <!--#include file="inc_WholeSaleCatMenu.inc"--> <%else%> <!--#include file="inc_RetailCatMenu.inc"--> <%end if%> <% if pIdCategory=100 then %> Show special content to be displayed when category 100 is shown <% else %> Show something else <% end if %> I'm going to play around with these statements and see if I can get what I'm looking for. I don't want to lose a unique menu for my wholesalers, but i hope that's easy to avoid... thx

Hamish Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12-October-2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 56	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hamish Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13-May-2008 at 6:35am
	Hi Cauglan, if you have quite a few categories you could try something like :- <%select case pIdCategory%> <%case 1 %> <!--#include file="inc_Menu1.inc"--> <%case 2 %> <!--#include file="inc_Menu2.inc"--> <%case 3 %> <!--#include file="inc_Menu3.inc"--> <%case else %> <!--#include file="inc_MenuAll.inc"--> <% end select %>

caughlan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 25-September-2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote caughlan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13-May-2008 at 3:49pm
	Thanks Hamish - what exactly would I write where you've written "select case" and "case 1" etc. I assume I'm to change something there, but my biggest stumbling block is the exact language asp uses. I just finished figuring out php and ruby for two of my other sites, and my brain is on overload - any hand-holding would be greatly appreciated! stacelynn

Hamish Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12-October-2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 56	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hamish Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13-May-2008 at 5:40pm
	Hi, - consider hands held. ASP stands for Active Server Page. It's a microsoft term for pages built dynamically at the server. Several languages could be used, but product cart is written in vbscript. If you have php & ruby under your belt then vbscript will be stright forward I would think - once your brain's recovered a bit . To find out more about vbscript then visit http://www.w3schools.com/Vbscript/default.asp It's a traditional procedural language & to distinguish it from the HTML etc it's encapsulated in <% %> - Not necessarily, in fact preferably not, around each individual line. There's also SQL & Javascript in the files as well.

Hamish Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12-October-2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 56	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hamish Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13-May-2008 at 5:42pm
	The "select case" statement gives the name of a variable and then each "Case" test checks the value of that variable until a match is found and then executes that piece of code. If no match is found then, if present, "case else" is executed.