[pmwiki-users] more than one cookbook- RotateMarkup possible?

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 02:26:12PM -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> Stephan Schildberg wrote:
> > 
> > you did provide us with this cookbook file.
> > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/RotateMarkup
> > It works fine. :-)
> > 
> > - Is it possible to use more than one 'tour' of changes, like (:rotate
> > 1:) .... (:rotate n:) ?

One possibility might be to change (:rotate:) to use a page
divided into sections (a la BreakPage or SectionEdit), where each
section is one element of the rotation.  

(And yes, I'm looking at integrating a version of section edits
into the core.)

> > - Is it possible to point to a directory, given I show alternating
> > pictures, instead of a fixed list, then abjuring the use of links?
> > This would provide the wiki author with more power to change the content
> > (by uploads). Now we have access only through config.php

Perhaps, although it seems to me that most times there are likely to
be things in an upload directory that wouldn't belong in a rotation,
so we end up having to have a list anyway.

> (I've thought about adding pure rotation eventually.. feel free
> to do so... random is easier since you don't care about state).

Awwww, "rotation" can be pretty darn simple too!   I just do the
rotation based on wall clock time...  :-)

    $RotateMarkupFreq = 10;     # change every ten seconds

    $r = array("things", "to", "be", "rotated");
    $i = (time() / $RotateMarkupFreq) % count($r);
    return $r[$i];

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