Forums / General / Shuffle in ezpublish4.0
John Smith
Wednesday 16 April 2008 3:09:20 am
What is best method to andomly display images from a folder in ezpublish 4.0.
In ezpublish3.6.1 we use to use "shuffle"..
Cheers.
André R.
Wednesday 16 April 2008 3:21:33 am
Like before, the best way is to fetch the image count with list_count or tree_count.Then generate a random number between 0 and count -1, and fetch the image with the random number as offset and limit = 1 using list of tree fetch(depending on what you used to get image count).
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Wednesday 16 April 2008 5:51:55 am
Thanks Andre for your kind help.
One thing, here I want to display 3 images, if in the folder the images are more than 3 then they will rotate/shuffle .
Any clue?
Mark Marsiglio
Wednesday 16 April 2008 6:01:36 am
We have updated the shuffle operator extension for use with 4.0. I will see if we can get it packaged up and uploaded.
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Wednesday 16 April 2008 6:06:54 am
That might help, thanks, please post when done....
Wednesday 16 April 2008 6:56:08 am
http://ez.no/developer/contribs/template_plugins/shuffle_4_0
Wednesday 16 April 2008 7:01:55 am
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your kind help and uploading the contribution, would it be possible to have some idea what changes you made to make it work on ezpublish4.0.
I am in the process of upgrading few sites from 3.6.0 to 4.0.
It might help....
Wednesday 16 April 2008 7:19:56 am
In this particular extension, the upgrade was a matter of removing a single "&" from the existing code.
Other extensions that we have had to upgrade for 4.0 took significantly more time.