lol... dude just search for "drupal view random node" you will get all. I didn't write anything...this is just copying and pasting here :-)

1. create a new *view* in *administer* » *views* » *add* tab. 2. give it a name. I called mine "*Random*". 3. click the "Block" section heading to get its settings. 4. enable "Provide block" 5. choose a "*View* type". I went with "List *View*" so that I could choose which fields display in the block. 6. type in a title. This will be the title of the block. 7. type in a number for the amount of nodes you want to display in the block. You can use 1 (number one) if you like. 8. click the "Fields" section heading to get its settings. 9. add the fields you want. I chose just "*Node*: Title" since I wanted just links to the nodes, not the *node* text themselves. You should be able to choose whichever field has the quote in your CCK *node*. 10. click the "Filters" section heading to get its settings. 11. select "*Node*: Type" and click "Add Filter" 12. choose the CCK *node* type(s) you want to appear in the block. 13. select "*Node*: Published" and click "Add Filter". (I keep forgetting this one, but it's important, since you probably don't want to display unpublished nodes. 14. click the "Sort criteria" section heading to get its settings. 15. select "*Random*" and click "Add criteria". 16. click "Save" 17. click *administer* » *blocks* and enable the block you titled in step #6.

Thanks!

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Austin Einter austin.einter@gmail.comwrote:

Thanks Idan I have very limited knowledge on views. Know how to create simple views.

Can you give an overview how to make a view with random nodes.

I assume, in nodes we will be printing the images.

Regards, Kamal

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Idan Arbel idan@arbel-designs.comwrote:

...

Hello,

why not create a view of random nodes. create a block display for the view and place it in a region at the top of your page?

Idan

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Austin Einter <austin.einter@gmail.com

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wrote:

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Hi All I would like to show image files (in a random manner) at the top of webpage. I want to have a folder that contains all the image files.

Then I want to have a separate php file (say rotate.php) having logic of selecting the random image file. And want to include that rotate.php file from page.tpl.php.

To start with, I followed the marinelli view. Used the images and rotate.php (\marinelli\img\banners\rotate.php).

Copied to image files and rotate.php to path where my page.tpl.php is present.

In page.tpl.php, I added the line include ("rotate.php");

The rotate.php looks as below. On debugging looks *preg_match *line it breaks. Please let me know why line "if ( preg_match( $regex, $file ) ) {" breaks.

Regards Austin

*<?php*

*/***

** randomly select an image from the current directory and return it*

---

** @todo - consider accepting a local path as $_GET['img'] for overrides

** to remain compatible with Marinelli's rotate.php*

---

** (but why? why possible use case is there for linking to *

** rotate.php?img=file.gif instead of straight to file.gif?)*

**/*

*$file_types = array( *

*'gif' => 'image/gif',*

*'jpg' => 'image/jpeg',*

*'jpeg' => 'image/jpeg',*

*'png' => 'image/png'*

*) ;*

*$regex = '/.(' . implode('|',array_keys($file_types)) . ')$/i' ;*

*$files = array() ;*

*$directory = opendir(".");*

*while ( FALSE !== ($file = readdir( $directory )) ) {*

*if ( preg_match( $regex, $file ) ) {*

*$files[] = $file ;*

*}*

*}*

*if ( !empty( $files ) ) {*

*$which = rand(0,sizeof($files)-1) ;*

*if ( $file = file_get_contents( $files[$which] ) ) {*

*$parts = explode('.',$files[$which]) ;*

*$ext = strtolower($parts[sizeof($parts)-1]) ;*

**

*header( "Content-type: " . $file_types[$ext] ) ;*

*header( "Expires: Wed, 29 Jan 1975 04:15:00 GMT" );*

*header( "Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT" );*

*header( "Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate" );*

*header( "Pragma: no-cache" );*

*print $file ;*

**

*}*

*}*

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