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Chiara
Jun 12th 2004, 2:01 am
Does anyone know of a good script that will generate a random page from a list of pages within a site if a visitor clicks a link?
Voyager
Jun 12th 2004, 2:16 am
Check out Perl Archive : Random: Links (http://www.perlarchive.com/Random/Links/index.shtml)
Chiara
Jun 12th 2004, 3:44 am
Thank you! On a related note, how can I get what Shawn has on his tools page, a script to post on my index page listing recent topics in the forum? I love that.
T0PS3O
Jun 12th 2004, 6:10 am
Simply do a db SELECT statement and specify the number of items you want, from which table and sort by date. You can choose most recent topics, most recent posts, etc. Whichever you'd like to display. It's just a simple db query really. Then display it with php or whatever you use.
Chiara
Jun 12th 2004, 5:17 pm
Er, yeah, I guess I'm getting in over my head because I don't know what any of that means. I'm using a phpBB board and I what I'd love to have is on each category page of site, have a box that says, "Recent posts in the X message board forum" and on another page, "Recent posts in the Y message board forum."
T0PS3O
Jun 14th 2004, 1:54 am
If you can't program it yourself then you have to find an existng one which I haven't seen. Try hotscripts.com or similar sites.
Chiara
Jun 14th 2004, 11:11 pm
No, I can't program it myself. Is this site only for advanced programmers. There are probably a lot of other people here like me who are baffled when we ask questions and get back answers that seem like Greek. :)
T0PS3O
Jun 15th 2004, 1:37 am
I've studied Greek... But have to say that studying PHP has turned out to be more useful! I can recommend it to anyone.

Anyway, you really need to know the lay out of your database tables before you can write sucht a little script so that is the least you need to know. If it's like phpBB or Vbulletin then you could ask webmasters who already have that snippet of code because the database tables and rows it refers to will then be the same.

But if that stuff interests you, I'd still go buy 'The PHP Bible' and leatn how to do it yourself. Not that hard at all and you can do some amazing stuff with it.
Chiara
Jun 22nd 2004, 10:01 pm
Thanks for the info. I don't really want to get into heavy programming stuff. Maybe one day ...

I'm not putting up message boards right away so I'll just deal with this later. I just like to plan ahead so I thought I'd ask. :)