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Re: Random item teasers?
At 01:17 PM 6/24/99 , .cory.trese. wrote:
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>
>>
>><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?
Yes, all four would be different.
>
>
>>
>>Is this do-able?
>>
>>
>>On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Ryan Hertz wrote:
>>
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>>>
>>> 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
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>>> >>
>>> >> At 02:24 PM 6/23/99 , JFox MiniVend list wrote:
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>>> >> >
>>> >> >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?
>>> >>
>>> >> >
>>> >> >-
>>>
>>>
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>>> Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits, Inc. http://www.yamamoto.baits.com
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