Displaying ranom page ??

Hi All,

I have a client testimonial section on the left of my site which displays 1 document.

I have it set up so that each document is created under the testimonials page and pulled on to the main testimonial page via ditto.

What I want is to display one testimonial ( introtext ) onto the left column across the site but do it so it is random and on a page refresh will change the one displayed.

Is this possible

Thanks for any help

Ditto has randomize parameter so I think you can do it with another Ditto call.
http://ditto.modxcms.com/files/snippet-ditto-php.html#randomize

As alternative solution to randomize parameter of ditto, you could use snippet by doing db query and return introtext field.

SELECT id, introtext
FROM `site_content`
WHERE parent = ’youparentid’ AND isfolder = ’0’
ORDER BY RAND()
LIMIT 1

Be sure to call the snippet with [! !] to make sure it doesn’t not load from cache.

Quote from: tkfm at Sep 26, 2009, 08:39 AM

Ditto has randomize parameter so I think you can do it with another Ditto call.
http://ditto.modxcms.com/files/snippet-ditto-php.html#randomize

Cheers,

Just what I was looking for

@cevarief,

Good solution but no need for more complicated methods when ditto already has it built in

Just noticed I’m getting "Resource Array Error " at the bottom of the output using the following call:


If I remove the &limit=`1` it goes but displays all testimonials.

Any ideas what could be wrong ??

try

Thanks sharkbait

Tried that and still the same output

hmm...maybe: ?

If you want only one document to be displayed use this.

If you want only one document to be displayed use this.
&display=`1`

is &display not supposed to be used with pagination?
probably/hopefully both will work