how to set link to product from other product

[lybrary]

I would like to link from one products description to another product. What is the best way of doing this?

 

Best

Chris....

[Guest]

Use this

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...l/search,x+sell

[lybrary]

Thanks for the suggestion, but this isn't really what I want. I would like to have a text link from the product description to another product. For example:

 

"This book is the second volume of this series. _Volume 1_ dealt mainly with..."

 

The _Volume 1_ should be a link to volume 1, another product in my catalog.

 

Best,

Chris....

[Guest]

Well as you add in the products descriptions yourself, its something you are going to have to do manually.

 

Or write a custom bit of code in admin/categories.php which when the form is submitted, it looks for a string of text matching a product name and replaces it with a link, however this would be high server overheads.

 

There may be some functionality in a wysiwyg editor which might help.

[lybrary]

For now I am setting a static link that I copy from the browser when I am at the particular products website. But your suggestion is interesting, to have something in admin that takes a special tag and converts it automatically to a static link.

 

<linkto product_id=31>

 

is transformed to

 

<a href="http://www.lybrary.com/product_info.php/products_id/31">the name of product 31</a>

 

Best,

Chris....

[♥Monika in Germany]

For now I am setting a static link that I copy from the browser when I am at the particular products website. But your suggestion is interesting, to have something in admin that takes a special tag and converts it automatically to a static link.

 

<linkto product_id=31>

 

is transformed to

 

<a href="http://www.lybrary.com/product_info.php/products_id/31">the name of product 31</a>

 

Best,

Chris....

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

 

it should transform to the tep_href_link form of a link to keep session ids. There is a contrib there I think ...

 

or use this: http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=157369