Re: Banners and sort of random display

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1997

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 11575
interpreted = N
texte = >Since everybody is talking banners today:)>>is it possible before I spend the weekend finding it is not...to do a>search first if I gave a keyword to the data base and then do a sdir=ra.>>What I want to do is limit the banners in certain sections of my site to>their relative nature to that section of the site.>>This doesn't apply to my site but think of it this way if I was in a golf>section then the banners would be limited to a keyword of golf....and if I>was in a fishing section then the banners would be limted to only those>that dealt with fishing. But if I was in a general section then I would>remove the keyword search and let any banner display.>>[search>db=Ads.db&wokeyworddata=golf&Advertisementsort=1&Advertisementsdir=ra&max=1]>[foundItems][Interpret][Advertisement][/Interpret][/foundItems]>[/search]>>>I have yet to use the sdir=ra...and would the above give me back banners>with the keyword golf only, in a random order and never give me anything>that has to do with fishing. Want to make sure there is no presidence of>the sdir=ra over the keyword search. If anybody know the>answer...great...if not I guess I will give it a whirl and see what happens>this weekend.It sure seems to me like this would work, provided the sdir=ra doesn'talways return the same first record every time a search is performed. Ithink the purpose of sdir=ra is to retrieve the records in a differentorder every time. However, I haven't tested it, so if you try this, pleaselet us know how it works ... :)Sincerely, Ken Grome ..... ken@iav.comhttp://usarea.net/home.html Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Banners and sort of random display (Grant Hulbert 1997)
Re: Banners and sort of random display (Kenneth Grome 1997)
Banners and sort of random display (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)

>Since everybody is talking banners today:)>>is it possible before I spend the weekend finding it is not...to do a>search first if I gave a keyword to the data base and then do a sdir=ra.>>What I want to do is limit the banners in certain sections of my site to>their relative nature to that section of the site.>>This doesn't apply to my site but think of it this way if I was in a golf>section then the banners would be limited to a keyword of golf....and if I>was in a fishing section then the banners would be limted to only those>that dealt with fishing. But if I was in a general section then I would>remove the keyword search and let any banner display.>>[search>db=Ads.db&wokeyworddata=golf&Advertisementsort=1&Advertisementsdir=ra&max=1]>[founditems][interpret][Advertisement][/Interpret][/foundItems]>[/search]>>>I have yet to use the sdir=ra...and would the above give me back banners>with the keyword golf only, in a random order and never give me anything>that has to do with fishing. Want to make sure there is no presidence of>the sdir=ra over the keyword search. If anybody know the>answer...great...if not I guess I will give it a whirl and see what happens>this weekend.It sure seems to me like this would work, provided the sdir=ra doesn'talways return the same first record every time a search is performed. Ithink the purpose of sdir=ra is to retrieve the records in a differentorder every time. However, I haven't tested it, so if you try this, pleaselet us know how it works ... :)Sincerely, Ken Grome ..... ken@iav.comhttp://usarea.net/home.html Kenneth Grome

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Re: Banners and sort of random display

1997

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