RandomImage

I am sure I am being really stupid here but what the heck. I am using the RandomImage snippet and it is doing what it is required to do, but is there a way to tell it to display as a background image.

Thanks in advance for your help

I did similar thing. I needed to have random banner pictures.
So I created one folder with pages which contain HTML piece of code with (IMG markup). Every picture = one document.

And in the template you can use DITO snippet with the following parameters: parent=’ID of your folder’, display=1, randomize=1, total=all.

If you are setting backgroundimage in CSS style, you should use CSS style as a document in MODx using DITO snippet as well.

This could be used for any random requests without ad-hoc snippets - random jokes, random pictures, random quotations, etc.

HTH.

P.

I always thought using Ditto and the database like that was a bit of an overkill for something as simple as grabbing a random image from a given folder, though.

To use it for a background image, have the CSS that specifies the background image for a given element in a <style> block in your template head, and use the snippet there.

Quote from: sottwell at Sep 11, 2008, 11:49 AM

I always thought using Ditto and the database like that was a bit of an overkill for something as simple as grabbing a random image from a given folder, though.

To use it for a background image, have the CSS that specifies the background image for a given element in a <style> block in your template head, and use the snippet there.

You’re right it is more than neccesary for this particular purpose. I like it simply because it opens many other possibilities and it is pretty flexible. Additionally, I am trying to avoid using of "many" other snippets which may cause problems during the upgrade in future?

You know, I like MODx - it offers so many ways:)