[pmwiki-users] Randomize Pages

[[] Jamie]

OK, I can see a good use of the Pagelist for article teasers. As I 
understand it I use the markup:

(:pagelist fmt=PagelistTemplateSamples#articleteasers group=Main count=1:)


However I'm not sure about the code. Is this the code that the above 
markup is calling?


[[#articleteasers]]
[+{=$Title}+]
%define=leftborder border-left="2px solid #88f" margin-left="2px" 
padding="0 0 0 10px"%
 >>leftborder<<(:include {=$FullName} lines=5:)

%right% [-[[{=$FullName}|Read More]]-]
(:if ! equal {>$Group}:)
 >><<

(:if:)
[[#articleteasersend]]


Do I place this code in a separate page? If so, what is that page 
called? I'm a little confused, especially by the 'fmt' command.

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The Editor wrote:
> On 3/25/07, [] Jamie <followtheboat at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I wondered if there is a recipe for randomising extracts of page content? On
>> my wiki home page I'd like to insert a box taking up a quarter of the page,
>> or half a paragraph, which text wrapping round it, and for the recipe to
>> grab the first three lines or so of a random page. That way whenever a
>> visitor hits the home page they see a bordered box with constantly changing
>> content.
>>
>> If I've not explained that very clearly then please take a look at the
>> homepage to my website (not the wiki). If you hit refresh you'll see that
>> the image, the quote in the top right and the 'Random Log Entry' all change
>> every time the page refreshes. It's a lazy way of making the page look
>> dynamic I guess.
>>
>> As an adjunct to this I wondered if there is a way of including only an
>> extract of a page, rather than the whole page?
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>     
>
>
> You can do this I think with a pagelist.  If you look at the pagelist
> docs, you can set something like order=random, get it to return 1 item
> (count), and limit to the first x lines.  Note lines are based on hard
> returns, not how many soft returns are on the page.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Dan
>
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