RE: [mv] help with multiple defined [random] banners?

[Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>]

At 03:47 PM 10/14/1999 , you wrote:
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>>How would each file of the random list do this? Would it call its own
>>[random] tag? If so, how would it be diferent from the others? I thought
>>random couldn't be restricted to specified banners from a list either.

[if [item-category] eq "business"]
	<IMG SRC="businessbanner.gif">
[/if]
[if [item-category] eq "lordsofacid"]
	<IMG SRC="loa2.gif">
[/if]
[if [item-category] eq "pragakhan"]
	<IMG SRC="pragakhan.gif">
[/if]

You could put those in each of the (limit) 15 files...  theoretically you'd
end up with 45 different randoms (15 for each category).  This is
definitely slower/easier than writing a PERL banner rotator - but that
wouldn't be a bad idea either.

>I was saying have each random file be something. Like random2 be for 
>business banners. The perl code in that would be coded in such a way 
>as to only deal with banners in the business category.

	Sure, you could write some PERL, use File::Find to look in a
'images/banners/[item-category]/' directory, fill an array, pick a random
one, and dump the contents of the corresponding file.  You could create a
directory for each category in your catalog.
	I don't know how you would handle minivend interpolation (if you needed
it) - but I imagine this would make a great globalsub to share with
everyone when you finished it.  :-)

>For instance banners for business might be code 1-20. the random code 
>(in perl) would pick a dandom number between 1 and 20.
>
>i really dunno, I am babbling, i haven't worked on a solution :(
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