[pmwiki-users] pagelist and order=random

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 10:30:46AM +0200, Sebastian Siedentopf wrote:
> Currently we use pmwiki2.1b24. To generate a random backlink list we  
> use a custom backlink recipe which uses the BackLinkTo() function.  
> This function is gone in the latest PmWiki release, but it's not a  
> problem, because we have the order=random argument for (:pagelist:) now.
> 
> Now the issue: I only want an excerpt of the pagelist, so I use  
> order=random and count=5. This works fine, but I still want the 5  
> randomly choosen entries to be in alphabetical order. Any ideas?

This will likely require a custom function of some sort.

BackLinksTo() is gone, but you should be able to use 
PageIndexGrep() to get similar results.

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