Posted on: 02/05/02 06:12am
By: chmouel
Doesn't work...
Posted on: 02/05/02 08:53pm
By: Tony
This didn't quite work for me. I did hack it a bit to get it to work but the use of srand() and rand() brought my webserver to it's knees.
Turns out the built in PHP randomizer does a poor job and in many cases returns a bogus values which is really causing me problems. I tried switching to mt_srand() and mt_rand() with similar results. Anybody else have a way to do this. As it stands you would have to do a while loop until mt_rand() returns a valid value. I'll admit, I haven't complete read the PHP docs on this but if anyone has input let me konw.
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very cool
Posted on: 02/06/02 05:15am
By: dreamscape
that's great. i'm glad people are finally starting to code and share phpblocks for GL.
keep up the good work!
Ramdom Image & Gallery
Posted on: 02/06/02 08:11am
By: squatty
Has anyone been able to intergrate the Gallery random image script and Geeklog?
Geeklog/Gallery Random Pics
Posted on: 02/06/02 11:29am
By: Tony
I do have the code that compliments the work on the Geeklog/Gallery integration.
You can get the two functions from here[*3]
NOTE: this code does not work well if you have albums with no pictures in it. You'll need to change the code to handle that if you have such a case (e.g. such as nothing but sub-albums in an album)
See it in action here[*4]
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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
Geeklog/Gallery Random Pics
Posted on: 02/06/02 09:10pm
By: squatty
Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for. I created my own hack for Gallery but my version wasn't smart enough to link back inside the album. You the man!
Where does the code go?
Posted on: 03/05/02 04:51pm
By: Anonymous (Anonymous)
Where do I need to put the code for the gallery hack?
Geeklog/Gallery Random Pics
Posted on: 03/21/02 02:42pm
By: efarmboy
Thanks Tony,
Copied the new functions into my GL lib-custom file and made a few edits on the $gallery variables, added the defines to my geeklog/config.php file and was up an running.
I further made a quick hack to not look at a private album and filter out empty albums. Made changes to the function phpblock_random_files($g)
I think you can see the changes below:
// Randomly select one of the images if index counter > 2
// Anthing < is an empty album or only the highlight image
// If the album is completely empty, setting the index to 1 will show a empty image but no errors
if ($index > 2) {
mt_srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$indexr = (mt_rand(1, count($pics)));
} else {
$indexr = 1;