Module to display a different page each day from a database?

[pwg]

Hi,

I have a client, a food manufacturer, who wants to put a recipe database on their site. They are looking at about 300 recipes.

However, the bit I'm unsure about is they want a different recipe to display each day, in rotation.

Any ideas / modules that could handle this?

I'm hoping it may be really obvious and simple, and I've just missed the answer...

Thanks for any help, suggestions.

Cheers,

Paul

[jmcgin51]

pretty sure there are several modules with a "random" parameter.  Try Cataloger, or maybe Products.

[pwg]

The News module? Fantastic.

Really, so you think it would be possible to add the 300 odd recipes as news articles, and then have them display randomly?

Can you set time (say 24 hours, etc) to display?

Thanks for your help.

[calguy1000]

Hmmm, I'm not sure that any module would handle this out of the box....
sure you could display a random item per request, but something would have to be written to remember the randomly chosen item for the day, and refresh it each day....

or as you originally mentioned to cycle them, so that there were no repeats.

Wouldn't be that big of a project though.

[pwg]

Many thanks calguy1000.

I've sent you a PM to see if you are interested in doing this project for me, and how much it would cost.

If anyone else has the required skills, please PM me, as I'd like to get an indicative price to the client asap.

Thanks for your help.

[jmcgin51]

sorry - doesn't look like News has this feature.  I thought it did.  Cataloger does (I think), from a look through the Wiki.  Calguy makes a good point, though.  Random is one thing.  Random with no repeats is another.