Hi, I have built a site with Dreamweaver and I have a problem with a
query.
I am trying to pass a parameter from one page to another to drill
down. Basically, I have one product entry that is in multiple
categories on my website. So, say it's a dress, it is therefore
related to category 1 which is 'Girls', but it is also more
specifically related to category 2 which is 'Girls Dresses'.
The way I have set this up is to have a column called MultiCategoryID
that holds both the number 1 and 2 like this: /1/2/
When a user clicks a link to look at dresses, the parameter 2 is
passed, but my query on the result page is wrong in some way because
no records are displaying even though there is content to display.
This is what I have so far:
SELECT *
FROM Products
WHERE MultiCategoryID LIKE '/catdrill/'
ORDER BY ProductID DESC
The parameter settings are:
Name: catdrill
Type: Numeric
Value: Request("MCID") MCID is the url parameter being passed
Default value: 2
Only when I test the Default value with an exact match of /1/2/ does
any product display. What have I done wrong here? Is there a way to
get it to recognise that I want it to pick specific numbers between
the slashes rather than the whole lot? I have tried to change the
slashes to full stops just in case they are causing problems, but
it's still giving the same problem.
Thanks.
Mat
