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**Duncan Rounding** · 17-Aug-2008, 07:44 PM

Perhaps but Actinic won't be able to update it. You can however create a list/display of products on a non Actinic page then use 'add to cart from anywhere on the internet' as detailed in the AUG.

**stuartn** · 17-Aug-2008, 08:12 PM

I thought that would be the case - its to avoid it being forgotten about and not getting updated, so might be better to put the front page into Actinic for the time being and then work on the other pages over time.

Thanks for the suggestion.

**pinbrook** · 17-Aug-2008, 09:38 PM

you might want to use actinic for the index page only (as well as shop pages!)

this is what we did at surf-wax.co.uk/index.html just so we could have new products on it

**NormanRouxel** · 18-Aug-2008, 07:11 AM

Here's a way to get Actinic to write a new products list to an external file that you can then include via an IFRAME into your external page.

Put the following just above the </head> statment in your overall layout.

Code:

<!-- Only create file on Search page -->
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22Search%22" >
	<actinic:block php="true">
		$npfile = fopen('newproductslist.html', 'w');
		$nphtml = '<html><head><link href="actinic.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></head><body>';
		$nphtml .= <<<ENDOFCODE
<actinic:variable name="NewProductsList" value="Home Page New Products List" />
ENDOFCODE;
		$nphtml = str_replace('<a ', '<a target="_parent" ', $nphtml);	// open links in parent, not iframe
		$nphtml .= '</body></html>';
		fwrite($npfile, $nphtml);
		fclose($npfile);
	</actinic:block>	
</actinic:block>

Do a full Preview and the file newproductslist.html will be written to your Site folder.

Now go to Design / Additional Files and add the file newproductslist.html.

On your external page, load this file via e.g.

<iframe src="acatalog/newproductslist.html" width="100%"></iframe>

You can include different new products lists by altering the line

<actinic:variable name="NewProductsList" value="Home Page New Products List" />

PS Using Actinic to generate all pages is still better!

**Bruce King** · 18-Aug-2008, 07:54 AM

Nice one Norman ....

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