User talk:Mathsinger
Hi :-) let me know if you need any help - the MediaWiki code snippets article has some quite useful stuff in it. --nad 21:09, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
Well, I do have a question/issue. I would really like the RandomImage extension to be able to pull from a specific Category, rather than from the whole set of images. I have been fiddling with making a list using DPL, with the idea of making it the "choices" option. No luck..
Here are my attempts...
{{#vardefine:images|<dpl> category=RandomImages mode=inline inlinetext=| shownamespace=false </dpl>}} {{#var:images}} {{#tag: randomimage |test1 |float=right |size=250 |choices={{#var:images}} }} {{#tag: randomimage |test2 |float=right |size=250 |choices=CliffordABurchsted.jpg|20070917-JohnsHouse01.jpg }}
The second random image tag setup only shows the first image.
I am about ready to rewrite the RandomImage extension; I was really excited to find you had a page on it, as I thought you might be working on it. My big stumbling block to writing a new version is understanding how a random image is chosen. __METHOD__ doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I am not sure that the DPL solution is very good, anyway, since I have hundreds of images -- only some of which I would like to display.
See http://www.gausschildren.org/genwiki if you want to see what I have now.