Re: database driven user quotes

The other side of that is, there should be a default one incase the
user has javascript disabled.  Then the javascript would replace the
innerHTML of the div that contains it with a random quote.  I can
provide code if needed.

Gavin

On Aug 17, 2005, at 7:13 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
>
>
>> Could use javascript to fill an array of quotes and randomly pic one.
>>
>
> That works ...
>
>>
>> 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?
>>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Robert Treat wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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