Randomproducts

[ekm:randomproducts]

' Data to Show 
location='auto'; 

' Advanced Data Manipulation 
excludelist=;
includelist=; 

' Navigation Options when logged in 
editbuttons='YES'; 

' Image Sizes
image_ratio='auto';
image_width='auto';
image_height='auto'; 

' Font Face, Font Size and Font Style (Bold, Italic, etc) 
font_formatting='yes'; 

product_title_font='auto';
product_title_size='auto';
product_title_style='auto'; 

product_description_font='auto';
product_description_size='auto';
product_description_style='auto'; 

' Output Format 
output_item='<TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=3>
<TR><TD WIDTH=10>[image]</TD><TD>[name]
<FONT FACE="arial" SIZE=2 COLOR="DARKRED"><BR>
<B>[price]</B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>'; 

' Element Replace 
element_replace='null';

[/ekm:randomproducts]

This is a category location ID, so for example you may have a category within your shop with an ID of 5. If you wanted to output this categories contents you would set the location to 5.

Category ID's are found by looking at the url in the address bar...

index.asp?function=DISPLAYCAT&catid=10

So in this example the category ID would be 10.

In most cases this value should be set to auto which will ensure it uses the current location data.

For example you might have a couple of products which you do not want displaying so you would enter these two '234, 12' for example.

For example you might have a couple of products displaying and nothing else, so you may enter '234, 12' for example.

If this is set to 'NO' then no font formatting will be performed. If you are using CSS in your design then you are best setting this to 'NO'.

<TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=3 WIDTH=100%><TR>
<TD WIDTH=10>[image]</TD>
<TD ALIGN=LEFT>[name]
<FONT FACE="arial" SIZE=2 COLOR="DARKRED">[price-BR]
<B>[price]</B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

[id]
Outputs the product ID

[name]
Outputs the product Name

[name-NOEDIT]
Outputs the product Name but without the standard ekmPowershop (EDIT | DELETE | ORDER) buttons. If you use this you need to use the tag [editbuttons] below, otherwise there isnt a way for customers to change this item

[description]
Outputs the product Description

[description-BR]
Outputs the a line break if there is a Description

[image]
Outputs the product Image

[productcode]
Outputs a products 'Product Code'

[stock]
Outputs a products Stock Level

[rrp]
Outputs a products RRP

[rrp-line]
Outputs a products RRP with a strikethrough

[price]
Outputs a products Price

[price-BR]
Outputs the a line break if there is a Price

[editbuttons]
Outputs the standard ekmPowershop (EDIT | DELETE | ORDER) buttons. Only needed if you use the [name-NOEDIT] tag.

[lastmodified]
Outputs the last modified date of a product. See formatdate below for more details.

Note: You do not need to close 'non-EKM:' tags.

An example use of these tags would be...

output_item='[image]<BR>[name]<BR>[shortdescription]
<BR>[price]';

[name] - [description] And description was empty and your element_replace was set to 'nothing here' you would get the following...

Apple iPod - nothing here The main use for this tag is when your using a table layout and instead of an empty cell you could set the element_replace to   so you would still maintain a grid style layout.

For example:

formatdate='[day_of_month] - [month] - [year]';

Output: 10 - 1 - 2012

[full_month]

[abbreviated_month]

[day_of_month]



[ordinal]



[day_of_the_year]

[year]

[year_partial]



[day_number]

[day_name_short]

[day_name]