PhotoPost Community - View Single Post - RP 3.32 'Previous product' and 'Next product' text links on showproduct.php erratic

criscokid · December 30th, 2006, 10:53 AM

Ok I hear what you're saying.

/reviews/showcat.php is a 'jumping on point' for people to navigate products.

In my mind if a site is sorting products alphabetically and a user clicks on a product that starts with 'a' then he should be able to 'next product' through to 'b products', 'c products' all the way to 'z products'. That's a logical approach rather than the product with the next highest or lowest product ID?

Take my example in post #3... a person following what I did is not going to see all the products in the category... because at some point you're going to hit a brick wall with no 'next products'. Regardless of which product the user clicks on first he should be able to navigate using 'previous' and 'next' to see all of the products in a chosen category.

There's still the issue of the first product a user clicks on having a 'previous product' link which is a link to itself.

December 30th, 2006, 10:53 AM	#5 (permalink)
criscokid Senior Member Verified Customer Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: London, UK Posts: 567	Ok I hear what you're saying. /reviews/showcat.php is a 'jumping on point' for people to navigate products. In my mind if a site is sorting products alphabetically and a user clicks on a product that starts with 'a' then he should be able to 'next product' through to 'b products', 'c products' all the way to 'z products'. That's a logical approach rather than the product with the next highest or lowest product ID? Take my example in post #3... a person following what I did is not going to see all the products in the category... because at some point you're going to hit a brick wall with no 'next products'. Regardless of which product the user clicks on first he should be able to navigate using 'previous' and 'next' to see all of the products in a chosen category. There's still the issue of the first product a user clicks on having a 'previous product' link which is a link to itself.