On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 02:36, Howard Hansen wrote:

I'm working on a site that will include lots of bulleted lists. My boss loves the idea of making content change with each visit, so he wants to have a bulleted list of -- say -- 10 benefits of membership, but only display three of them for any given page view. He's got a list of 100 interesting facts. He wants to display only one. He's got a database of upcoming events. He wants to display three upcoming ones.

Seems to me that these are all the same problem: pick one or more items out of a list, wrap begin and end item HTML around each item, wrap begin list and end list HTML around the entire list, and plunk it onto the page. Mix in a reasonably idiot-proof UI for managing the list items, and I think that would make a pretty cool product for Zope.

This begs a few questions: Does this or something like it already exist, or is it just a really stupid idea? Are there features people would like to have? Is anyone willing to help me with the design and creation of the internals of this thing? Are there any similar, folderish products that I should use as a model for my design?

Thanks!

Start here for a brief intro: http://www.zope.org/Documentation/How-To/RandomContent you can also look at how ads are randomly selected here: http://www.zope.org/Members/Bill/Products/BannerSystem For ideas on how I've done this anyway. The latter shows a way of doing "weighted" random, IIRC. I need to update that code ... if anyone is interested. Bill

Howard Hansen http://howard.editthispage.com

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