General Suggestions

by Mark L - Member - 01:37AM, Jun 29, 2006

Based on my first few days playing around with this technology I have a couple of minor suggestions that would ease page custimization and make it a bit more flexible (if some are already available please forgive my ignorance) :

1. Add description association to collection. This will provide a generic way to display an overview describing a collection of items without having to hard code a case statement in the collections template, could just use {collection.description}.

2. The ability to access request query parameters … useful for created paged lists and many other things

3. Need a solution for shipping, at a bare minimum the ability to associate one or more shipping costs with each product either directly or through some classification scheme i.e. class. This would allow stores to implement custom shipping calculation algorithm with the details externalized at the product level. I am trying to work out exactly what I would need and will post back when I figure it out (unless anyone has a good solution for shipping costs already … please share).

4. The ability to specify height, width, and depth of products so that collections of products can be grouped by dimension. I presume the best way to do this now would be to specify this in the production description and tag the product in a dimension grouping … I guess this will actually work just fine.

5. String concatenation within expressions, could provide a very limited ability to perform simple logic AND operations. Something like {%if {str1 + str2} == ’?’ %}

6. Substring search that can be used in an if statement as well as a filter …

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1c3e9c4eb49265f84feccf16fbc6f6f5 Anthony Bailey Member 06:24PM, Jul 02, 2006	“Me too” re the first of those six suggestions. `--Anthony.`
d464e2b1802e02987a6334ce0611a52e Boxhead Member 08:51AM, Jul 20, 2006	Adding a ‘me too’ too.
6d343944b054e645fcac060aed55ec80 Caroline Schnapp Member 07:29PM, Jul 04, 2008	This has been implemented: 1. Add description association to collection. This will provide a generic way to display an overview describing a collection of items without having to hard code a case statement in the collections template, could just use {collection.description}. Regarding no 2: We have something similar, but we don’t get the tag filter. We have `collection.url`, for example, but it does not provide the complete URL in many instances, it does NOT provide the last argument, ie: the tag filter. I am actually struggling to read the active tag in collection.liquid now. I know how to print the collection tags and have the one active tag be wrapped with a `<span class="active"></span>`, and I am using the filter ‘highlight_active_tag’for that… but I am unable to read the active tag. How do I do this? Me too on 2, 5 and 6. --- Caroline from http://11heavens.com — Last edited 07:37PM, Jul 04, 2008
43bc2bd2f4f5eea925e61a3eb61362b4 tobi jaded Pixel 09:49PM, Jul 04, 2008	6 is also implemented : `{% if whatever includes 'substribg' %}` --- Tobias Lütke Shopify – Founder, CEO
6d343944b054e645fcac060aed55ec80 Caroline Schnapp Member 11:12PM, Jul 04, 2008	Oh my God! I will add this to the Wiki! --- Caroline from http://11heavens.com
6d343944b054e645fcac060aed55ec80 Caroline Schnapp Member 11:24PM, Jul 04, 2008	I added the following case: `{% if user.name includes 'tobi' %} hi tobias {% endif %}` To this page: http://wiki.shopify.com/UsingLiquid It’s kind of dumb, and I probably will come up with something better tomorrow. --- Caroline from http://11heavens.com — Last edited 12:12AM, Jul 05, 2008
6d343944b054e645fcac060aed55ec80 Caroline Schnapp Member 12:29AM, Jul 05, 2008	You can use the capture Tag for #5. 5. String concatenation within expressions, could provide a very limited ability to perform simple logic AND operations. Something like {%if {str1 + str2} == ’?’ %} It might not be very elegant… `{% capture myConcatenation %}{{ str1 }}{{ str2 }}{% endcapture %} {% if myConcatenation == 'someString' %}` --- Caroline from http://11heavens.com
6d343944b054e645fcac060aed55ec80 Caroline Schnapp Member 10:31PM, Jul 06, 2008	Tobi, the keyword ‘includes’ does not work. --- Caroline from http://11heavens.com — Last edited 11:39PM, Jul 06, 2008
43bc2bd2f4f5eea925e61a3eb61362b4 tobi jaded Pixel 12:32AM, Jul 07, 2008	Sorry, i confused myself. The actual keyword is “contains” : {% if user.name contains ‘tobi’ %} http://github.com/tobi/liquid/tree/master/test/if_else_test.rb#L123 --- Tobias Lütke Shopify – Founder, CEO
6d343944b054e645fcac060aed55ec80 Caroline Schnapp Member 04:15AM, Jul 07, 2008	Yes, it works, thank you! I will update the wiki. --- Caroline from http://11heavens.com