RE: [ic] Interpolate [include] or [file]?

[Ryan Grace <suppressed>]

--- Jonathan Clark <suppressed> wrote:
> [contextual quoting fixed]
> 
> > > > I'm working on building a dynamic catalog
> browsing
> > > > page.  The page gets a category of products
> from
> > > the
> > > > URL and possibly a page number to show, else
> it
> > > shows
> > > > the first in the category range.  These are
> images
> > > of
> > > > whole catalog pages in jpeg format with image
> maps
> > > to
> > > > go along with them.  It's a long story.
> > > >
> > > > What I'm wondering is if there's a way to
> > > interpolate
> > > > the [include] or [file] tags.  I need to grab
> a
> > > > different image map, each of which are stored
> in
> > > > separate files, for inclusion in the page
> > > depending on
> > > > what catalog page number I'm currently
> showing.
> > > I've
> > > > searched the archives and haven't been able to
> > > find a
> > > > way to do this.
> > > >
> > > > What I'd like to do, basically, is:
> > > >
> > > > [include name="catalog/imagemaps/[scratch
> > > > thispage].map"]
> > > >
> > > > But that doesn't work.  Or does it and I'm
> doing
> > > > something wrong?
> > > >
> > > > TIA,
> > > >
> > > > Ryan
> > > >
> > >
> > > Ryan, did my suggestion not workout?
> > >
> > > [include file="catalog/imagemaps/[scratch
> > > thispage].map"]
> > >
> > > assuming [scratch thispage] is properly set...
> 
> > Your suggestion did work for the [file] tag, but
> not
> > the [include] tag.
> >
> > The image map I'm including looks like this:
> >
> > <area shape="rect" coords="145,93,163,141"
> href="[page
> > href="7068"]">
> > <area shape="poly"
> >
>
coords="103,71,127,71,134,110,132,125,118,134,97,127"
> > href="[page href="7048"]">
> >
> > So I want to use [include] to interpolate all teh
> > [page] tags in there.  However, I can only get the
> > file to be included if I use [file] instead of
> > [include].  The tag looks like:
> >
> > [include name="pages/catalog/imagemaps/[scratch
> > thispage].html"]
> >
> > That doesn't work, but replacing include with file
> > does include it, but obviously doesn't interpolate
> > those tags.
> >
> > Any reason that would be?  I've checked and double
> > checked the map fle and made sure all the [page]
> tags
> > were formatted correctly and there were not weird
> > brackets hanging about.
> 
> Firstly, please post replies in the context of the
> message, as per the
> guidelines of the list which you were sent.
> 
> As has been answered above, the named parameter for
> the [include] tag is
> 'file' and not 'name'. Also, I think you meant to
> use [area] instead of
> [page] in your above code. Other than that, it
> should work if you use:
> 
> [include file="pages/catalog/imagemaps/[scratch
> thispage].html"]
> 
> Jonathan
> www.webmaint.net

Aha!  That works!  Thanks.

Ryan

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