Could use javascript to fill an array of quotes and randomly pic one.
On Aug 17, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> Ummm, how are you planning on handling the web servers, which are
> all static pages generated by the master site?
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> On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Robert Treat wrote:
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>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I'm thinking about making the user quotes on the main website
>> database
>> driven . Two goals behind this would be to allow for a page where
>> we could
>> display all user quotes, and also to allow the quotes on the main
>> page to be
>> randomly generated for each site build, making the front page a
>> little less
>> static. The one tricky part seems to be how best to handle
>> translations. I
>> had a thought to make the database table something simple like quote,
>> tagline, & lang, which would be fine for storing the content,
>> however I'm not
>> sure the best way for extracting it. I was thinking the calls to
>> func_lang
>> could be replaced with a get_quote, and then use $_LANGUAGE for
>> system/handler.php as an argument to get the appropriate quote. I
>> figure
>> this will also mean we need an addition to the admin screens for
>> inputing
>> quotes. Does this sound reasonable?
>>
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>> Robert Treat
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