SearchEngenie

[Andy]

Thought it would be easier if every shop had it's own thread.

Here's my first shop: http://www.searchengenie.co.uk

This was the shop I created while I found my way around the code.

Its a pretty standard use of the template, although i did away with the search box and used something alittle different instead!

The main customisations have been to the core, see if you can spot em!!!

Oh, and take a look at what ive done to goto.php!

[IntroSites]

looking good!

A few things i noticed, the page doesn't seem to render well in IE7, a few issues with validation and visitors with javascript and/or meta refresh disabled wont get to the merchant (may be worth altering your links and/or refreshes with a backup href for non JS users).

HTH

[Andy]

All issues to be expected mate. I installed mainly played with the core of things to see what I could get out of it. Ive had the searchengenie domain for ages and only ever really used it to develop and learn on. Ive been playing alot with search engines for the last 12 months (hence the name). That domain has seen about 30 different search solutions in the last year, some of which i built myself, some were api's similar to ShopWindow.

I'll fix all of the above one day, but at the mo, priority is the real api Ive installed elsewhere. Suppose once thats running, ill have nothing to do, so no excuse not to get searchengenie upto scratch!

Thanks for taking a butchers, all criticism is good.

I like what you've done with yours btw.

You've done mod rewrite on the URLS. Very good. i never thought to rewrite mine like a directory structure, just opted to make it all look like .html files.

I notice you've taken out the breadcrumb. Was it because of the mod rewrite problem?

Took me days to get the breadcrumb to behave properly.

The pagination was a tw@ to rewrite too! I see an extra variable in your search string (&search=Go), I take it thats to help with the switch between category and search pagination.
Originally i checked to see if search was an object to get round this, but it was dog slow. So, i went for careful use of strpos() in the end. Works like a charm

[IntroSites]

if you look carefully you will see the main green horizontal menu is the breadcrumbs.

i agree pagination is a pain:D