Re: [mv] [loop arg="[random]"]

[Victor Nolton <ven@pragakhan.com>]

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Wants exactly 4. I just want them to be able to put in 4 item numbers 
per file and have it behave exactly like the random feature does 
except, not cache the page.

[loop arg="[books]"] something where it would just grab the books 
file with 4 items in it and do it's thing.

Problem I am having is they've designed their site in frontpage and 
reading the html or editing the html produced by it is a nightmare.

Ven


>******    message to minivend-users from cfm@maine.com     ******
>
>On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 08:10:33PM -0400, Victor Nolton wrote:
>> ******    message to minivend-users from Victor Nolton 
>><ven@pragakhan.com>     ******
>>
>> Okay this may be simple.
>>
>> Customer wants to have 10 files that are editable (just like the
>> random1.html...random10.html). BUT each one be named something
>> specific like
>> books.html,videos.html,cds.html. Each one would contain 4 item numbers.
>>
>> BUT the random files can only be used on the appropriate page. they
>> want it to act just like random and it would NOT be cached (aka no
>> need to restart to be updated).
>>
>> Like I said this may be simple.
>>
>> Minivend 3.14
>
>We do something like that this way:
>
>Give the client a directory in userland (we don't let clients
>edit minivend directly).  We call it "static" for, well, historical
>reasons.  ;^)
>
>They can place files in static directory that correspond to
>pagenames, or maybe to searchspec.
>
>Suppose mv_searchspec was "videos".
>
>stat path_to_static
>if exists
>  include it
>else
>  include a default
>
>
>In your case you need to go another level of abstraction,
>stat path_to_static
>if exists
>  read it; select one at random; generate the include; include it
>else
>  default
>
>I'd question that "4".  Client might think that's making your life
>easier.  You could just as well select any one from category
>books, video, etc... OR maybe he wants to feature some more than
>others.  Or does he want exactly "4".
>
>
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>
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