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vBulletin 3 Request - Random Quotes

Hello Again,

Does anyone happen to know the best method to have random quotes displayed everytime a page in vBulletin is refreshed?

An image of where I have setup for the quotes to be displayed is as follows:

http://i.imgur.com/29KA8Fk.png?1

And the code for that is:

Code:

<table class="tcat" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border-top:1px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-bottom:1px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]">



<tr>

    <td height="1" bgcolor="$stylevar[tcat_bgcolor]">

      

    </td>

<tr>

    <td align="center" bgcolor="$stylevar[select_bgcolor]">

<font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="1" ><i>"Quote Text."</i> - <b>Quote Author</font>

    </td>

<tr>

    <td height="1" bgcolor="$stylevar[tcat_bgcolor]">

      

    </td>



</table></table>

</div>

Hopefully, someone out there is able to provide some insight. Thank you,

What I would do is define a 2D array of quotes, where each element of the array contains a quote and the author, and then generate a random number between 1 and the length of the array (inclusive), then pass the selected array element to your template. :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarkFL (Post 2584601)

How would I interface that with a vbulletin template though? Like there are plenty of random tutorials out there that involve php code, but I don't know how to integrate that into a vBulletin template so its a little confusing, you know?

You could use a global plugin hook, and I believe in vB 3 you don't even need to register the variables in your template.

I don't have time right now, but if you want, I will look into creating a vB 3.8.x product to do this. :)

So you can use the plugin in much the same way as I did to define the $quotemain for the footer template, right?

Code:

eval('$quotemain= "' . fetch_template('quotes_main') . '";');

eval('$quotetext= "' . fetch_template('quotes_text') . '";');

It might be a good idea. I know so many people still use 3.8.x, heck I still know someone who still uses 2.3.x LOL!

--------------- Added [DATE]1491083304[/DATE] at [TIME]1491083304[/TIME] ---------------

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarkFL (Post 2584603)

Okay, so I got somewhere with this. In the quotes_main template (which is called in the footer template as &quotemain), I added:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/quotes_database.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/quotes_call.js"></script>

The contents of the quotes_database.js is:

PHP Code:


		
			
    <!-- Hide the script from old browsers
    function getQuote() {
      // Create the arrays
      quotes = new Array(4);
      sources = new Array(4);

      // Initialize the arrays with quotes
      quotes[0] = "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant..." +
      "but when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned " +
      "in 7 years.";
      sources[0] = "Mark Twain";
      quotes[1] = "Everybody is ignorant. Only on different subjects.";
      sources[1] = "Will Rogers";
      quotes[2] = "They say such nice things about people at their funerals " +
      "that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.";
      sources[2] = "Garrison Keilor";
      quotes[3] = "What's another word for thesaurus?";
      sources[3] = "Steven Wright";

      // Get a random index into the arrays
      i = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length);

      // Write out the quote as HTML
      document.write("<dl style='background-color:#F7D7C8'>\n");
      document.write("<dt>" + "\"<i>" + quotes[i] + "</i>\"\n");
      document.write("<b><dd>" + "- " + sources[i] + "</b>\"\n");
      document.write("<dl>\n");
    }
    // Stop hiding the script -->

And the contents of quotes_call.js is:

PHP Code:


		
			
      <!-- Hide the script from old browsers
      getQuote();
      // Stop hiding the script -->

And this is how it shows up on my forum:

http://i.imgur.com/WKaQou4.png?1

-Sara

Use this.... edit to your liking
I have an edited version of it on my site.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...highlight=tips

Quote:

Originally Posted by blind-eddie (Post 2584607)

Use this.... edit to your liking
I have an edited version of it on my site.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...highlight=tips

Thank you so much for your contribution. I've actually already implemented what I included above and it works splendidly :)

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