Re: [mv] Randomly pick a product

[Handytman@aol.com]

What I wound up doing is including a field 'days' in products.asc which I 
populated with the days (as in 'day of the month') that the particular item 
should be featured on the home page. Then, on the home page, an in-page 
search looks in that field for the day, returned from a brief Perl script 
held in [calc] tags, as follows:

[loop search="
 se=[calc]@timelist = localtime;$mday = $timelist[3];return $mday;[/calc]
 su=yes
 sf=days
 ml=1
 "]
    [loop-description]
    All loop-code goes here.
    [page href="[loop-code]" send=1]More Information[/page]
[/loop]

For what it's worth,
Rob Maurer :o)


In a message dated 10/23/99 11:12:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time, cfm@maine.com 
writes:

> ******    message to minivend-users from "Mr. Christopher F. Miller" <cfm@
> maine.com>     ******
>  
>  
>  In some cases we do it on a per page request basis but generally
>  use cached files instead.
>  
>  So you could do:
>  
>  [file name=adfadf]  # I forget, is it [file or [include?  See manual
>  
>  and generate the contents of "adfadf" by another process perhaps on
>  cron or triggered otherwise.
>  
>  On Windows you might rebuild "adfadf" at reboot.  ;^>
>  
>  cfm
>  
>  
>  On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 08:34:27AM -0400, Handytman@aol.com wrote:
>  > ******    message to minivend-users from Handytman@aol.com     ******
>  > 
>  > I need to pick a product, at random, from an ever-changing  
'products.asc,'
>  
>  > for display on the initial catalog page. Therefore, using the random 
tags 
>  > seems inappropriate. Counting through all the items in 'products.asc' 
> seems 
>  > too time-consuming for the server. Has anybody accomplished this? Care 
to 
>  > pass on some perls of wisdom?
>  > 
>  > Much appreciated,
>  > Rob Maurer