Support/Comments for RandomAd

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Brief Description:
Selects a random image/link combination from a specified folder

I like the script

Is it possible to have it display random images but link to the same URL (page)?

Or is there another script I should look at?

Quote from: nekstrebor at Nov 06, 2006, 01:25 PM

I like the script

Is it possible to have it display random images but link to the same URL (page)?

Or is there another script I should look at?

Yes!

Change line 50 in the snippet code:

to:


let me know if that works for you.

-sD-

COOL!!

Will give it try.

Thanks

Ken

Sorry... I made a typo,

Change line 50 in the snippet code:

to:


I forgot a single quote at the end between > and ;
copy the code from this post instead.

-sD-

Thanks for the alternate code Scotty, actually didn’t have a chance to test it out yet, but this snippet sure will be handy

Thanks - got it to work

Since this is a link it is showing up with a border around the image. I was playing around with line 51 to see if I could use border="0". Can you tell me where it should go? I’m making it crash

echo( "<div class=\"randomAd\"><img src=\"" . $image_name . "\" alt =\"" . $image_id . "\" />
\n" );

Regards,

Ken

much easier than futzing with the snippet code!

just put:

in your CSS file.

-sD-

I went back to the original script and I had to use the bare bones snippet so I could get the script to work. It only works using [!RandonAd!]

Can it work with friendly URL’s ?

I tried to using...

[!RandomAd? &folder=’assets/images/software’!]
[!RandomAd? &folder=’/assets/images/software’!]

and even [!RandomAd? &folder=’assets/images/random’!]

Nothing worked except [!RandonAd!]. Could this be a problems because of using friendly URL’s?

Here is the error I get when I try anything but [!RandonAd!] :

« MODx Parse Error »
MODx encountered the following error while attempting to parse the requested resource:
« PHP Parse Error »

PHP error debug
Error: opendir(’assets/images/random’): failed to open dir: No such file or directory
Error type/ Nr.: Warning - 2
File: /..../manager/includes/document.parser.class.inc.php(705) : eval()’d code
Line: 30

Parser timing
MySQL: 0.0019 s s (3 Requests)
PHP: 0.0503 s s
Total: 0.0522 s s

How can I get it to work with friendly URL’s?

Regards,

Ken

hmmm...
I put this snippet together from part of another snippet (I don’t remember which one) a while ago to fit a particular niche on one of my templates where I wanted a PNG image to pop up on top the header image, linking to a random area of my site. That being said, it is an incredibly simple, somewhat static snippet, i.e. not too versatile.

You might want to try :


"[(site_url)]" is one of the built in’s from MODx that gets replaced by the document parser as the actual URL of your site.

let me know if it works. BTW, did that CSS work for you?

-sD-