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Topic: Random includes

Posted By: JDYoung
Subject: Random includes
Date Posted: 15 September 2003 at 11:37am

Is it possible to have random includes? If I have three different pages, is it possible to have it randomly select one of the three pages?

Thank you,

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JD

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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 15 September 2003 at 3:19pm

Theoretically yes, you can use includes in your randomize function though all pages get always included, no matter what. You can put the content in a db field and query it that way.

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Posted By: JDYoung
Date Posted: 15 September 2003 at 3:29pm

I am not sure I really unstand.

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JD

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 16 September 2003 at 9:56am


Dim randomstring
Randomize
randomstring = INT(rnd()*10)
Do While randomstring > 3
randomize
randomstring = INT(rnd*10)
Loop
randomstring = "page" & randomstring & ".asp"
server.execute randomstring

Posted By: JDYoung
Date Posted: 16 September 2003 at 4:04pm

Thank you. I am still a but unsure how this code is put into a page and unsed. I have my main page & would like to randonmly include 1 of the 3 files (a header ) into the main page.

So would I insert your code into the main page where I want one of the random  files to be place?

Thank you again!

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JD

Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 17 September 2003 at 7:55am

Mart is using Server.Execute which has the advantage of using variables as a filename, that luxury you don't have with SSI includes. Just put his code to wherever you want the page to be executed.

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