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.