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#1 2007-08-29 19:55:44

snthr

Member

Registered: 2007-07-13

Posts: 42

randomisation query

hi…

i’m using textpattern at the moment to create a photography site, and i want to include a random image on the front page.

the content is organised into projects, with each project containing a group of between ten and thirty images, approximately.

the projects are single articles, so the site structure goes site.com/section/article.

the site is not a photoblog, so it can’t be organised with each photo as a different article.

i want the frontpage to simply have a single image selected at random from all the images in all the projects in the site (if possible), and, ideally, to be able to have a bit of contextual text to go along with it.

what’s the best way of getting this to work? is there any plugin that does something along these lines? will it involve (gulp) messing around with php?

any help welcome; thanks.

#2 2007-08-29 21:06:15

marios

Archived Plugin Author

Registered: 2005-03-12

Posts: 1,253

Re: randomisation query

In case, that you have one project image on each article as article_image assigned, you can do this:

On your Site Front Page Template:

<txp:article_custom form=“front_image” sort=“rand()” limit=“1” />

Your custom_article form:

<div id=“rand_img”><txp:article_image thumbnail=“1” /></div>
<div id=“caption”><txp:excerpt /></div>

regards

Last edited by marios (2007-08-29 21:12:44)

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#3 2007-08-30 19:02:41

snthr

Member

Registered: 2007-07-13

Posts: 42

Re: randomisation query

i’m mucking around with that at the moment and i think it’s done the trick; thanks very much.

#4 2007-08-31 07:26:11

panik

Member

From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2005-08-13

Posts: 13

Re: randomisation query

There is the Random Image Plugin

The randomisation there is per image and not per article.

Jonas