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Joff
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United Kingdom
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Posted - April 19 2007 :  09:24:14  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I've edited tmp_topsellers.htm and now when viewing the shop, I get $ characters prefixing the lines (as you would expect in any normal HTML page).

What would cause VP-ASP to stop parsing the $-prefixed lines?

The $ characters are the first character on the line.

$	[cdescription]<br /><br />
$ Price: <span class='price'>[formatcustomerprice cprice]</span>

Displays:
http://joff.org/vpasp_screen1.jpg

Kidd
VP-CART Super User

Australia
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Posted - April 19 2007 :  10:18:59  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
the $ sign must be the 1st character on the line, if you have space if will show i.e

correct:
$ [cdescription]<br /><br />

wrong
$ [cdescription]<br /><br />
$ [cdescription]<br /><br />
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Joff
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Posted - April 19 2007 :  11:27:25  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Yup, got that, the $ is the first character, with no leading whitespace. Still have the error.
Edited by - Joff on April 19 2007 11:27:48
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stone5150
VP-CART New User

USA
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Posted - April 19 2007 :  12:16:32  Show Profile  Visit stone5150's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Check for any basic HTML errors right before that line.
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Joff
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Posted - April 19 2007 :  14:31:34  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I'll take a look tomorrow, but the file is pretty basic and there's nothing else that was changed other than opening it and saving it.
No extra markup was added.
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Joff
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Posted - April 20 2007 :  03:19:13  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I've stripped the tmp_topsellers.htm file down to leave only the following:
$ [formatcustomerprice cprice]
$ <img src="[cimageurl]" />


Two lines in the file, no whitespace before the $ on either line and I still get the $ character showing.
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Joff
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Posted - April 20 2007 :  03:21:07  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Update, I've tried a few different versions of the code and have found that
$ <a href="shopexd.asp?id=[catalogid]&bc=no"><img src="[cimageurl]" border="0" alt=" " title=" " /></a>

Displays no $ character, but
<br />
$ <a href="shopexd.asp?id=[catalogid]&bc=no"><img src="[cimageurl]" border="0" alt=" " title=" " /></a>

does show the character. Removing the break tag and leaving the image on line #2 also shows the $ character.
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devshb
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Posted - April 20 2007 :  05:30:54  Show Profile  Visit devshb's Homepage  Reply with Quote
The dollar trick will only work properly if there's just one template-field on that physical line in the template source.

Also, there are some template-fields where it won't work (I think it won't work for template-fields which don't have arguments but which also aren't column names)

Probably a good idea to add some test lines in the template, and then do a view-source on the product page to see exactly where the $ is appearing, because it might be appearing from another area (eg the customerprice bit) rather than from the image bit.

Simon Barnaby
Developer
[email protected]
www.BigYellowZone.com
Web Design, Online Marketing and VPASP addons
Edited by - devshb on April 20 2007 05:32:30
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Joff
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Posted - April 20 2007 :  06:23:04  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Cheers Simon, I'll give that a try, but how would I split the anchor tag onto two lines?

If the opening "<a href" is conditioned by the $ on a template field, then what about the closing "</a>" tag?

Eg.

$ <a href="shopexd.asp?id=[catalogid]&bc=no">
$<img src="[cimageurl]" border="0" alt=" " title=" " />
</a>


The original page had that code snippet above all on one line, with a $ prefix.
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Joff
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Posted - April 20 2007 :  06:24:57  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Ah, my bad - the original tmp_topsellers.htm looks like this:

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" class="ac vt"><span class=hdrproduct><a href="shopexd.asp?id=[catalogid]&bc=no">[cname]</a></span></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  	<td width="20%" class="ac vt"><a href="shopexd.asp?id=[catalogid]&bc=no">
$					 <img src="[cimageurl]" border="0" alt=" " title=" " />
	</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="ac vt">[cdescription]
		<br /><br />
$ Price: <span class='price'>[formatcustomerprice cprice]</span></td>
   </tr>
  
</table>
<hr />


So somewhere I must have messed about with the image and link line, causing the start of these problems.

I've copied over the original tmp file... but still have the errors!
Edited by - Joff on April 20 2007 06:28:05
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devshb
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United Kingdom
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Posted - April 20 2007 :  07:02:16  Show Profile  Visit devshb's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I'm wondering if the $ trick doesn't work on the cimageurl on 6.5, because 6.5 uses a missing-image bit of logic in it (ie there's a config option for when the cimageurl is blank) - it might be that.

Simon Barnaby
Developer
[email protected]
www.BigYellowZone.com
Web Design, Online Marketing and VPASP addons
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Joff
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Posted - April 20 2007 :  11:25:46  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Cheers, wonder if this is a bug then and if so I'll open this one up to VPASP staff, hopefully someone's watching :D
Edited by - Joff on April 20 2007 11:26:36
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Joff
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Posted - April 23 2007 :  07:08:49  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Bump for admin
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support
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Posted - April 23 2007 :  15:53:08  Show Profile  Visit support's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Hi Joff,

If you'd like for us to take a look at this, please open a new helpdesk ticket at https://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/helpdesk/

The replies in here from everyone have addressed the most common known causes of this issue (such as $ not being the first character on the line) however to really be able to debug this for you we will need access to your files.

Thank you

Michael
VPASP SUPPORT
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Joff
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Posted - April 23 2007 :  16:15:09  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks Michael - I was hoping to exhaust all other options first before risking paying for support credits ;)

The site's only being hosted locally at present but I can zip and email the site contents over if that will do. I'll email tomorrow morning anyway.
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Joff
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United Kingdom
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Posted - April 24 2007 :  10:25:46  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Problem solved!!

Typically, I was just replying to a support email from Billy @ VPASP when I opened up tmp_topsellers.htm in Windows Notepad.

All the file contents were on a single line rather than across multiple lines.

I code on a Mac and access/save files over the network onto a Windows PC so there must be some odd character formatting going on.

Anyone got any clues so this doesn't happen again?
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