[Snippet] ShowRandom

Here’s a snippet somewhat like the NewsListing snippet, only it shows a given number of random items taken from a given folder.

Right now it only shows the introtext (summary) but it won’t take much to make it show other fields as does NewsListing.

It has three arguments, startDoc, numItems, and tpl.

We sure needed this kind of snippet, a common plugin in other CMS...

With the stardDoc and tpl parameter we have MODx flexibility on top of randomizer capability
I sure will use this in the future, thanks Susan !

I’m sure it will grow a bit as people will want to show other parts of the document, such as the title or longtitle as a link, but for now it works great for simple blocks of content to be displayed randomly.

This is exactly what I was after. I’ve talked about it here:
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,1042.msg20780.html#msg20780

Exactly how do I call this snippet? Is it possible to add the following information:

• Page Title, which links to document
• A template variable

I’m new to MODx, so any help is appreciated

I was being lazy when I quickly threw this together for a specific request.

To add something, add another placeholder to the template, such as



then add these lines after line 39:



It needs to be rewritten to allow for an arbitrary number of placeholders, at least.