RANDOM INDEX PAGE

[cosmickites]

I have spent 3 months trying to get an answer to this.  We are looking to randominze either our index page or simply the body of the index page. I want the product review to be random when people come visit our page.

www.cosmickites.com

 

is this possible?  could anyone please please help?

 

Thank you

 

Michael

[rhodesa]

I am pretty sure this is built on a third party application right? Which one are you using?

[tinker]

whoa, too many images and stuff for me to wait for it to load...

But here's a snippit of a 'rough' I did for someone a while back, it might be a little too much but it is fairly accurate:

session_start();


$l=array(0,1,2,3,4,5,0,1,2,3,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,0);
if(isset($_SESSION['redirector']))
{
$l = $_SESSION['redirector'];
}
if(count($l) == 0)
{
$l=array(0,1,2,3,4,5,0,1,2,3,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,0);
}

function get_redirect()
{
global $l;

$url[0] = "http://www.siteone.com";
$url[1] = "http://www.sitetwo.com";
$url[2] = "http://www.sitethree.com";
$url[3] = "http://www.sitefour.net";
$url[4] = "http://www.sitefive.com";
$url[5] = "http://www.sitesix.com";

srand ((double)microtime()*1000000);
$n = rand(0, count($l)-1);
$ll = array_keys($l);
$nn = $ll[$n];
$sret = $url[$l[$nn]];
unset($l[$nn]);
$_SESSION['redirector'] = $l;

return $sret;
}

print get_redirect();

[Northern Flame]

well if your reviews are in a mysql table all you have to do is

add this to the query that selects them:

 

SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 10

 

(you can change the limit to however many reviews you want shown)

[cosmickites]

hey Tinker,

does this go after the head in my index page?

also, any idea what I should do to speed up the loading of the page?

 

rhodesa. i used dreamweaver to make the site