I'm trying to run a MTAmazon query and post a link to the item in question. If the query comes back blank, I would like to post some text saying something like 'Sorry, not found in Amazon'.

The text I've currently got going is:

<div class="buy">
<MTIfNotEmpty var="EntryExcerpt">
<a href="http://www.goodrecords.com/good/shopaff.asp?affid=31&code=<$MTEntryExcerpt$>">Buy at Good Records</a>
</MTIfNotEmpty>
<MTIfEmpty var="EntryExcerpt">
<MTAmazon method="Keyword" search="[MTEntryTitle] [MTEntryBody]" line="music" lastn="1">
<a href="<MTAmazonLink>">Buy at Amazon</a>
</MTAmazon>
</MTIfEmpty>
</div>

I've added in line breaks to make the code more readable. If I don't have anything in MTEntryExcerpt, it runs an Amazon query to see if it can be found there. If the query returns no results, the text output is '<div class="buy"></div>'.

Can you see anyway to force MTIfEmpty to recognize the Amazon query? Failing that, could the MTAddRegex command turn the output of '<div class="buy"></div>' into the text string of '<div class="buy">Not found in Amazon.</div>'?

Any ideas?

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MTElse "Nothing found..."

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MTElse "Nothing found..."

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MTElse "Nothing found..."

Thanks again! And great plugin by the way...it's serving my purposes quite nicely, as of late. :)

I posted Stephan at nonplus.net about this yesterday. Maybe you see this as a plug-in idea.

An enhancement of Search that enables a short Form (with variable purposes) to be matched up with someone else's blog posting that fills out the same form. And the ability to email both when matches are made.

It would be used like this: A password-protected account holder, in my case a real estate broker, logs in, and fills out a quick form available on their log-in page. Just click a few boxes or select from a list. A new house offering on the market has 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2 floors, 1 swimming pool, & in the $170,000 sale range. The account holder's template automatically has the contact info and name, unless it is overriden by another contact name and number, email, etc.

Comments can have additional sales details.

Publishing this by the Real Estate agent simultaneously fills-in the fields on a standard visible "Classified Ad" included in the text of that blog post. Publishing also puts in motion an internal search function that tries to match up this form data with any other entry made by Jane Q or John Q Public within the last week or so right up to now.

Likewise, when Jane Q Public first checks out this Real Estate blog she uses a Search function on the Index page by first filling out the Real Estate form listing her house buying preferences. The values she has to select from are the same as the Real Estate Agent's form. Her search then produces all of the appropriate Posts chronologically whose attached form matches her requirements. And, if the search turns up nothing, she can check to have herself emailed when and if a new property is posted that matches her form.

When a match or matches are made all those Jane Q Public's who filled out the same form under Buying Preferences are automatically emailed that a matching profile has just been submitted on the market at our Real Estate Blog. Their email has the link to our Real Estate blog where they find a list of relevant postings ready to read. And each time a Real Estate agency posts with a match to their stored form query our Jane Q and John Q House-looking Publics will be emailled to come take a look.

And the Administrator can control the expiration of this query after a certain period of days or hours.

This same function can be used for a Personal Blog where people go on a Blind Date or something like that. Everybody fills out a form and asks for a match or an email when one shows up.

Lots of uses-- recipes, books, video tapes, collectibles, special interests.

I believe Brad "Almighty" Choate finds this well within the realm of his peerless Perl powers.

By the way, I am running 2.64 on a Linux OS Apache server with PHP and mySql databases.

Thanks for your consideration!

Thanks for this article, I have been building website on MT whole weekend and I really love it.

I came up with small issues on category name. If my category contains Spanish characters or other links wont work on Internet Explorer. However Mozilla does a job perfectly but IE doesn't find a page.

Can someone please help me?

I am trying to determine how to identify my archive link so that I can then select which menu structure to show.

Example: url1="country/country_entertainment/" and url2="country/country_sports/"

If str(url) contains "entertainment"
then hilite (menu_ent)
elseif str(url) contains "sports"
then hilite (menu_spt)

I know there is a MTElse...but then how do I get the individual url1 and url2 without getting all the category urls?
And how do I check if the url returned have either "entertainment" or "sports"?

Ps. My name is Tun Kwan, student from Sabah Tshung Tsin Secondary School, Malaysia