Random Image question

[Lylel]

I'm using Random_image_selective quite a bit and I have two questions.

1. When I use it within the page contents, it "loses" the directory information every time I go back to edit a page. It looks like this - "{random_image_selective dir=" alt="Mic " where the directory path and the closing brace have disappeared. Why? and can I prevent this?

2. One way I'm sure I could prevent this would be to move the Random image into the template, but is there a way I could then specify a different directory for each page?

Thanks!

[Dr.CSS]

Need way more info...

[manuel]

Hi Lylel,

check out this article:
http://www.i-do-this.com/blog/20/Random ... ith-Smarty

Replace

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{assign var='header_images' value='uploads/relative/path/to/images/*.*'|glob}

With

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{assign var='header_images' value='`$somevar`*.*'|glob}

where $somevar will contain the various paths to the folders.

Then you can use $friendly_position to write something like

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{if $friendly_position === "2.1"}{assign var="somevar" value="uploads/relative/path/to/images/"}
{elseif  $friendly_position === "3.1"}{assign var="somevar" value="uploads/relative/path/to/images2/"}
...

ps: if you want to use the same images folder for a certain part of your page tree you can use:

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{$friendly_position|truncate:3:"" === "2.1"}

and it will match 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, ...

I just wrote this down without testing, let me know if you are having trouble implementing it and i'll test it further...

Greetings,
Manuel

[lyle]

Thanks for responding Manuel,
I'm afraid your approach is a bit over my head.
I'm going to reformulate my question and try re-posting