Re: database driven user quotes

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Gavin M. Roy wrote:

> Could use javascript to fill an array of quotes and randomly pic one.

That works ...
>
> On Aug 17, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>>
>> Ummm, how are you planning on handling the web servers, which are all
>> static pages generated by the master site?
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>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Robert Treat wrote:
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>>> Hey guys,
>>>
>>> I'm thinking about making the user quotes on the main website database
>>> driven .  Two goals behind this would be to allow for a page where we
>>> could
>>> display all user quotes, and also to allow the quotes on the main page to
>>> be
>>> randomly generated for each site build, making the front page a little
>>> less
>>> static.  The one tricky part seems to be how best to handle translations.
>>> I
>>> had a thought to make the database table something simple like quote,
>>> tagline, & lang, which would be fine for storing the content, however I'm
>>> not
>>> sure the best way for extracting it.  I was thinking the calls to
>>> func_lang
>>> could be replaced with a get_quote, and then use $_LANGUAGE for
>>> system/handler.php as an argument to get the appropriate quote.  I figure
>>> this will also mean we need an addition to the admin screens for inputing
>>> quotes. Does this sound reasonable?
>>>
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>>> Robert Treat
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> Gavin M. Roy
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