Linking to a particular category

On my site I will have rotating product displays and would like to link those to the product category that product is in - not to the product itself.
What's the best way to accomplish this?

Mick

The category link would have to look like the following:
Products_Results.php?Search=1&ProductCategoryID[]=1

The ProductCategoryID[]=1 should have a different category id based on what category you're looking for.

Jimmy

Thanks.
Can it be structured as a relative rather than absolute link?
If I use absolute links I'll need to replace them when the site goes live.

Mick

Yes, you should be able to use relative links as well, I was just giving the full url so you could see what it would look like.

Jimmy

On my home page index.php I have a header and 3 product display boxes the contents of which are all driven by a script - rotator.php.
The path and links etc. to images displayed are contained in .ini files.
The following is how a link is defined in the .ini file with a link to a product category as you explained earlier in this thread…

[Caps]
src = rotate/wearbox/caps1.jpg
alt = Caps
url = ../intuhorses/Products_Results.php?Search=1&ProductCategoryID[]=93
title = Caps
id =
class =

I get the following results.
On the site I linked above the url is changed to
&#8230;<a href="../intuhorses/Products_Results.php?Search" title="">&#8230;
which takes me to a listing of all the products.

On my local server (mac Mini Leopard MAMP) the page is aborted at that point with&#8230;
"Unable to read ini file."

If I remove that link - no problem.

Any idea how I can fix this?

Thanks

Mick

I'm not that experienced in setting up ini files, but it seems that the = character is a special character and needs to somehow be escaped or encoded for it to be put in the ini file. Maybe try the url encoded value:
ref_urlencode.asp

All greek to me.
I've opted to remove rotator.php and have replaced it with ProjectSeven's Image Rotator Magic.

Mick

Instead of using the "=" use the value that it matches up with in that link I sent you. Try that to see if it works.