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Topic: Using multiple headers in asp

Posted By: zeddy
Subject: Using multiple headers in asp
Date Posted: 07 August 2007 at 5:16pm

Hello there,

I am not sure if anyone can help me. I have inherited a bespoke shopping cart website which sells lots of different products. There are many different header files which have already been built. The problem is that I can only change which header the home page includes.

The website has main and sub categories which contain the products but I can't see how to specify which header file is included on these pages.

I would be extremly grateful for your help.

Many thanks in advance

Steve

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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 07 August 2007 at 8:25pm

could you explain WHY your using multiple headers?

I assume you mean you have made a few header files to be included eg "header1.asp", "header2.asp" and so on.

Couldnt you have one header file and use ASP to process the header the way you want it, eg

if you have categories for each product range maybe like "Electronics | Books | Gifts"
and each had a different colour scheme you could maybe have a different CSS file for each and have at the top of every page

intCategoryID = *id*

and the id would repersent the product categories like so:

1 - electronics
2 - books
3 - gifts

so you do

<link href="style_<%=intCategoryID%>.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />


and your colour scheme changes depending on the ID in the top of the page.

aswell as CSS you could have images eg 

<img src="logo_<%=intCategoryID%>.gif">
 and so on

if how ever the reason is alot more complex i would suggest using one include that selects the required include. eg:

<%
   select case intCategoryID

      case 1

%><!--#include file="header1.asp"--><%

      case 2

%><!--#include file="header2.asp"--><%

      case 3

%><!--#include file="header3.asp"--><%
      case else

%><!--#include file="header-else.asp"--><%
  end select
%>

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Posted By: zeddy
Date Posted: 08 August 2007 at 10:50am

Hello there thanks for your response. The reason why I have different headers is because the website sells all different products.

The idea is that for each category the site should include a different header file with relevent keywords and description for that page.

Each of the categories already have an id for example http://www.leisurefurniture.co.uk/category.asp?catId=709 - www.leisurefurniture.co.uk/category.asp?catId=709 as I mentioned the problem is that no matter what category the user selects it always includes the same header file.

Looking at your solution is there a way I can specify a different header file for each category id?

Many thanks in advance

Steve

Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 08 August 2007 at 6:24pm

if all you want different headers for is to change the Meta tags, i would suggest you add fields to your category table in the database for what you want to change, then when you get the category details get the meta tags and in your header have

<meta name="description" content="<%=strMetaDescription%>">

it would be far better than a different header file

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