Loading a specific product on a CTGY page

[TFo]

I have a New Arrivals category that uses Toolkit to display the last 30 products added to the database. I'm doing a redesign of the site using a ReadyTheme, so I figured I might as well modernize my New Arrivals code to take advantage of the pricing calculated by the Runtime_Product_Load_Code function.

I copied the sample code into the category's header and plugged in an existing product code, but I got nothing.

<mvt:do name="l.return" file="g.Module_Library_DB" value="Runtime_Product_Load_Code( 'product_code', l.product )" />
&mvt:product:code;

What am I missing here?

Thanks,
Todd

[AHerb]

Your code looks fine, if you're sure that the 'product_code' match any existing product code.

Part of code from my CTGY page (works fine)

<mvt:do name="l.return" file="g.Module_Library_DB" value="Runtime_Product_Load_Code( g.brother_product_code, g.ret )" />    
<mvt:if expr="g.ret:code">
      &mvt:global:ret:code;
</mvt:if>

[TFo]

The problem was that I took the code sample at its word. I can't use l.product as shown or any local variable for that matter, but it works fine if I switch to a global variable. Thanks for setting me straight.

[TFo]

For the record, I've been struggling with the code to automatically list the 30 most recent product additions in an empty category called new-arrivals. It really boiled down to making sure pricing was correct with all of the possible discounts and such. I knew I didn't want to manually assign/unassign these products.

After hours of trying this code and that code, I finally realized that there is no need at all to write code to replicate a category product layout listing within my New Arrivals category. It's much, much easier to automatically add and remove the products every time the category is visited, so I added the following code to the bottom of my CTGY template. Problem solved!

<mvt:if expr="l.settings:category:code EQ 'new-arrivals'">
<mvt:do file="g.Module_Library_DB" name="l.success" value="CategoryXProduct_Delete_All_Category(l.sett ings:category:id)" />

<mvt:do file="g.Module_Library_DB" name="l.success" value="Product_Load_Last(g.thisprod)" />
<mvt:assign name="g.prodcount" value="1" />
<mvt:while expr="g.prodcount LE 30">
<mvt:do file="g.Module_Library_DB" name="l.success" value="CategoryXProduct_Insert(l.settings:category :id, g.thisprod:id)" />
<mvt:do file="g.Module_Library_DB" name="l.success" value="Product_Load_Previous(g.thisprod, g.lastprod)" />
<mvt:assign name="g.thisprod" value="g.lastprod" />

<mvt:assign name="g.prodcount" value="g.prodcount + 1" />
</mvt:while>
</mvt:if>

[Brennan]

A couple thoughts here...

While that code does work, its quite a bit of overhead to un-assign and then re-assign all products from a category each time the page loads.

You could also use a ReadyTheme Product List which can be set to load the 30 products from all products and then reverse the sort so you get the last 30.

[TFo]

I realize that it is a bit of work for the server to do that, but this page is not visited a lot, surprisingly.

I have almost zero experience using ReadyThemes, so you'll have to bear with me here. I have no idea what a ReadyTheme Product List is. Where can I find some info on these features?

[TFo]

Found it here https://docs.miva.com/template-langu...-documentation, and got it working. Thanks for the pointing me in the right direction Brennan.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

FYI. The reason l.products didn't work above is because you used the SMT 'token' expressions of &mvt:product:code;, which actually assumes the variable name is really l.settings:product. However, its also a good idea not to re-use variables miva creates as you could have unintended consequences. So, while globals are fine (and even necessary at times) you can use structures like l.settings:xxx:products and the like (just remember they are expressed as tokens in the format &mvt:xxx:product;

[TFo]

Thanks for clearing that up Bruce.