Re: random images
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1997
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 14559
interpreted = N
texte = >I'm extremly new to web catalog, and am currently constructing my first >templates, I need to be able to imput images randomly.Look at the GeneralStore example and notice that the banner ads rotate randomly on each page in the store. The random banners in that example are displayed anywhere you put [include RandomAd.inc] in a template (include is sort of like a macro in NetCloak). If you open RandomAd.inc, you'll see that it searches a database and randomly returns the results of the search. You can put
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HTML into the database file that stores the list of banner ads. If you go to the main WebCatalog welcome page and enter the GeneralStore Admin link, you'll see an HTML-based interface for adding/deleting the text in the banner ads database. Or you can just open the database in a text editor.The advantage to this technique compared to NetCloak is that you can easily put 100,000 ads in, and your HTML won't have 100,000 show/hide commands in it.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/
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>I'm extremly new to web catalog, and am currently constructing my first >templates, I need to be able to imput images randomly.Look at the GeneralStore example and notice that the banner ads rotate randomly on each page in the store. The random banners in that example are displayed anywhere you put [include RandomAd.inc] in a template (include is sort of like a macro in NetCloak). If you open RandomAd.inc, you'll see that it searches a database and randomly returns the results of the search. You can put
![]()
HTML into the database file that stores the list of banner ads. If you go to the main WebCatalog welcome page and enter the GeneralStore Admin link, you'll see an HTML-based interface for adding/deleting the text in the banner ads database. Or you can just open the database in a text editor.The advantage to this technique compared to NetCloak is that you can easily put 100,000 ads in, and your HTML won't have 100,000 show/hide commands in it.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/
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