generating a listing page from product pages generated via compile.ipl

My scenario is a follows.

1. Get back a list of products from a database
2. For each product returned, generate a dcr - the dcrs are generated into one folder and then subsequent category directories
3. For each dcr generated, generate 2 php files - the php files are generated into catogory folders.
4. Generate a listing page for the products in each category.

Number 1 to 3 are done.

A snippet of my code for number is as follows.....

$cmd = "iwperl ${iwpt_compile} -pt ${some_location} -iw_include-location ${some_vpath} -ofile temp.php -iw_pt-dcr ";

Any ideas on the code for generating a listing for the category pages in the category folders in 3 above

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Nidhi_Agrawal

Hi,

On presentation template you can read the category folder using perl.
This will give u the no of products for that category. And for displaying the name of products on listing page read the extended attributes of proucts file (which are needed to be set at the time of generation).
I hope that i have understand your problem correctly.

Nidhi..

Adam Stoller

My scenario is a follows.

1. Get back a list of products from a database
2. For each product returned, generate a dcr - the dcrs are generated into one folder and then subsequent category directories
3. For each dcr generated, generate 2 php files - the php files are generated into catogory folders.
4. Generate a listing page for the products in each category.

Number 1 to 3 are done.

A snippet of my code for number is as follows.....

$cmd = "iwperl ${iwpt_compile} -pt ${some_location} -iw_include-location ${some_vpath} -ofile temp.php -iw_pt-dcr ";

Any ideas on the code for generating a listing for the category pages in the category folders in 3 above

I think you need to leave off the iw_pt-dcr flag for the command that is going to process a directory of DCRs and not a single DCR. Personally, I'd just write a script using TeamSite::XMLnode or TeamSite: Smiley Very Happy

CRnode and recurse through the directory(ies) and process the files I want to then create the output file desired - and possibly set EAs on that file so that it appears as generated text.