[ic] Scripting inside IC Tags
Barry Treahy, Jr.
interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Thu Sep 19 19:10:01 2002
Frank wrote:
>Hello List,
>
>after getting caught in the mailinglist-archives without result
>here now my as I think simple question:
>
>I want to randomize a loop search within a page every time the page
>will be refreshed. So I only have to change the search-value
>(5 possible values a-e) within the loop-search.
>
>I tried the following:
>
>1. perl version
> [loop search="se=
> [perl interpolate=1]
> @tmp = (a,b,c,d,e)
> srand();
> $num = int(rand 5);
> $out = $tmp[$num];
> $out;
> [/perl]
> /sf=cat/ml=1"]
>
> --> nothing happens, even with generating the hole [loop search....]
> by the script -> no output (seems to me the rand function
> is not supported.(?))
>
>
>
The JS path is dead as it executes on the browser and not the server. Is there a reason you don't use the random parameter for loop? Either create a scratch variable from the results which the search loop uses or nest the two?
Barry
--
Barry Treahy, Jr * Midwest Microwave * Vice President & CIO
E-mail: Treahy@mmaz.com * Phone: 480/314-1320 * FAX: 480/661-7028