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I'm looking for something like this:

http://linux.linux.dk/projects/randomize/

Basically it allows you to randomize things on your page. I'm looking to randomize links on my sidebar (reason is self-exclamatory I'd think).

I'm not certain on how to convert this for s9y usage so I figured I'd ask if there is something already in place.

Thanks again!

Hi,

there is a comfortable plugin for Serendipity called "Random Quotes". It allows you to enter a few quotes that appear in the sidebar and change on each refresh of the site.

You can modify this plugin in a way that it also interpretes HTML code. You just need to strip off the "htmlspecialchars()" in line 96 of the .php file and it should work fine.

Download here:
http://spartacus.s9y.org/cvs/additional ... quotes.zip

or simply via Spartacus.

Best Regards, Robert

I've actually used the random quote plugin to include html and images without editing any of the php files. Admittedly this was back when I was using Serendipity 0.82 and then 0.91, but I don't think the plugin has changed much since then so try it without altering any of the code. It might work for you as is.

Hmm the problem with this one is, is that it only displays one quote (or in my case link) at a time. I'm looking to have a list of links that are randomized.

Is there a way to make this so it can display a list and have that list be completely random?

Well, there's always modifying the code.

Beyond that, you could do the same thing they do on 'random' amusement park rides, like the Tower of Terror: come up with a bunch of blocks and choose one of them randomly.

Yeah I figured it'd come down to editing code. I was hoping it wasn't, but I think I got time to hammer this out.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Sorry. But look what you'll be contributing back to the community!

I'm imagining an option in the plugin configuration: "Number of Quotes to Display". Then just wrap a for-loop around the bit that does the random choosing.

I'll be happy to contribute it as soon as I figure out how to make an actual plug-in and not have it just be hacked for my own purposes. I think I'll start reading now.

I found that there's a beautiful array_rand function for this in PHP. Download the new serendipity_plugin_randomquote.php from my site at http://www.judebert.com/wasted_youth/me ... quotes.php and tell me if it works. If so, I'll update CVS later tonight, after I pull out the language constants.

(You'll need to use "Save link as", or you'll wind up on my site.)

This link didn't actually download the plug-in, instead it seemed to grab your entire site. Unless that was your intent?

I'm not that clever. I assume you used "Save link as", so it's probably a problem with the server recognizing .php files as executable. I zipped it up and we can try again:
http://www.judebert.com/wasted_youth/me ... quotes.zip

Yeah umm.. you may need to pull the file from an FTP client as you just pulled and zipped your site again. >.<;;

Oh, blush.

So sorry. An idiotic mistake on my part. It's fixed now, at least for the zip file.

I should've known that this plugin didn't need to be 45K.

All is forgiven, but there are some errors unfortunately.
I'm trying to figure it out now.

Thanks to a friend/forum user of mine, it now works like a charm!

What you had:

if ($numquotes > sizeof($quotes_array)) {
$numquotes = sizeof($quotes_array);
}

Changes:

$numquotes = sizeof($quotes_array);