On 3/25/07, [] Jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wondered if there is a recipe for randomising extracts of page content? On > my wiki home page I'd like to insert a box taking up a quarter of the page, > or half a paragraph, which text wrapping round it, and for the recipe to > grab the first three lines or so of a random page. That way whenever a > visitor hits the home page they see a bordered box with constantly changing > content. > > If I've not explained that very clearly then please take a look at the > homepage to my website (not the wiki). If you hit refresh you'll see that > the image, the quote in the top right and the 'Random Log Entry' all change > every time the page refreshes. It's a lazy way of making the page look > dynamic I guess. > > As an adjunct to this I wondered if there is a way of including only an > extract of a page, rather than the whole page? > > Any ideas?
You can do this I think with a pagelist. If you look at the pagelist docs, you can set something like order=random, get it to return 1 item (count), and limit to the first x lines. Note lines are based on hard returns, not how many soft returns are on the page. Hope this helps. Cheers, Dan _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users