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Re: Random item teasers?
>
><table>
> <tr>
> <td>[rotate]</td>
> <td>[rotate]</td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td>[rotate]</td>
> <td>[rotate]</td>
> </tr>
></table>
That seems to make sense to me. If you define four different rotates inte the
.cfg file and place your <td> </td> contents into the rotate[1-4] files, it
would work, no?
>
>Is this do-able?
>
>
>On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Ryan Hertz wrote:
>
>> ****** message to minivend-users from Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com> ******
>>
>> At 07:09 PM 6/23/99 , JFox MiniVend list wrote:
>> >I'm afraid the docs didn't prove very useful. I found the [random] tag
>> >very quickly, but nowhere in the documentation did it tell me how to
>> >produce a group of X _unique_, random items. Something like...
>>
>> Then perhaps the [rotate] tag would be more your style... it won't show
>> you the same image twice. (that is, until it rolls over)...
>>
>> From your catalog.cfg :
>>
>> ########### Rotate
>> ##
>> ## Default: blank
>> #
>> # Rotating messages 0 to 15, specified with a Vend-style filename, i.e. no
>> # .html suffix, (even though the file will have one), relative to the MiniVend
>> # page directory. Called by the [rotate] tag. IF YOU CHANGE THEM, THEY WON'T
>> # TAKE EFFECT UNTIL A RESTART.
>> #
>> Rotate rotate1 rotate2 rotate3 rotate4 rotate5
>>
>> These are file names (rotate1.html) in your catalog's pages dir. Putting
>> a [rotate] tag inside a page will have MV fetch that particular MV/HTML
>> page snippet and replace the tag with it.
>>
>> It isn't super-easy to start, as your 'featured item' would have to be
>> coded into the rotate1.html page. Mine contain something like this:
>>
>> [page 70-SPECIAL]<IMG SRC="ad.rotate.grubguard.jpg" HEIGHT=156 WIDTH=156
>> ALT="Grub Guards"></A>
>>
>> Where the IMG is a mini advertisement for the product.
>>
>> >
>> >[randomlist iterations=3]
>> >(blah blah blah HTML code here)
>> >[/randomlist]
>> >
>> >much like
>> >[item-list]
>> >(blah blah blah HTML code here)
>> >[/item-list]
>> >
>> >would be very much appreciated...
>> >
>> >On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Ryan Hertz wrote:
>> >
>> >> ****** message to minivend-users from Ryan Hertz
>> <rhertz@gyb.baits.com> ******
>> >>
>> >> At 02:24 PM 6/23/99 , JFox MiniVend list wrote:
>> >> >****** message to minivend-users from JFox MiniVend list
>> >> <jfox-mv@thewebunion.com> ******
>> >> >
>> >> >Hey all,
>> >> >
>> >> > What'd be an easy way to produce random teasers (i.e. random item
>> >> >listings) for just a few random (and unique!) items in a large database?
>> >> >I.e. I have a store containing thousands of, say, records, and I want a
>> >> >random four to show up as ads...
>> >>
>> >> You mean, other than the [random] tags?
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >-
>>
>>
>> Ryan Hertz tel 520-645-3812
>> Webmaster tel 800-645-BAIT
>> Advertising Director fax 520-645-2588
>> Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits, Inc. http://www.yamamoto.baits.com
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