Random Content Blob Tag

[Kavrick]

Hi - I'm trying to use the Random Content Blob and it's not working. It Throws this error where the random blob should be.

Fatal error: Class 'HtmlBlobOperations' not found in plugins/function.random_blob.php on line 20

I have 2 content blobs that start with the prefix "random_" as suggested.

Any help would be great.

Thanks,

David

[Dr.CSS]

Where did you get the Random Content Blob, I've looked around, forge/downloads, in 3 diff. ver. installs, Documentation, and can't find any mention of it, sounds interesting.

[Kavrick]

Sorry Mark - It's a tag... Sounded perfect for me too except it doesn't work. I think it's for an old version but I don't know Smarty well enough to see what's going on.

http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/randomblob

David

[Kavrick]

Bump - Anybody know how to fix this? Thanks in advance!

David

[Dee]

Change the first line of the function smarty_cms_function_random_blob (on line 20 of function.random_blob.php)
from

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        $blobs = HtmlBlobOperations::LoadHtmlBlobs();

to

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	global $gCms;
	$global_content_ops =& $gCms->getGlobalContentOperations();
	$blobs = $global_content_ops->LoadHtmlBlobs();	

[Kavrick]

Brilliant - Thanks Dee. That fixed it...

David 

[Dee]

Any chance you'd know how to update the tag so it doesn't show duplicate Content Blobs on a given page?

You mean if you use the tag more than once on a page?
Hmm, that wouldn't be very easy. You'd have to create a global (Smarty) variable to contain the blobs included already and handle the situation where you include the tag more than the number of random blocks.

[Kavrick]

Yeah - Sorry Dee... I wasn't thinking that through very well.

I solved it by creating two random content blob calls with a different prefix and then just made sure there wasn't duplicate content in each of the prefix types.

Thanks again for your help...

David

[Signex]

Thank you, Dee. That fix helped me out also.

[twiz]

This replacement code did the trick for me also.  Thank you Dee!