Re: Banners and sort of random display

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 11575
interpreted = N
texte = >Since everybody is talking banners today:) > >is it possible before I spend the weekend finding it is not...to do a >search first if I gave a keyword to the data base and then do a sdir=ra. > >What I want to do is limit the banners in certain sections of my site to >their relative nature to that section of the site. > >This doesn't apply to my site but think of it this way if I was in a golf >section then the banners would be limited to a keyword of golf....and if I >was in a fishing section then the banners would be limted to only those >that dealt with fishing. But if I was in a general section then I would >remove the keyword search and let any banner display. > >[search >db=Ads.db&wokeyworddata=golf&Advertisementsort=1&Advertisementsdir=ra&max=1] >[foundItems][Interpret][Advertisement][/Interpret][/foundItems] >[/search] > > >I have yet to use the sdir=ra...and would the above give me back banners >with the keyword golf only, in a random order and never give me anything >that has to do with fishing. Want to make sure there is no presidence of >the sdir=ra over the keyword search. If anybody know the >answer...great...if not I guess I will give it a whirl and see what happens >this weekend.It sure seems to me like this would work, provided the sdir=ra doesn't always return the same first record every time a search is performed. I think the purpose of sdir=ra is to retrieve the records in a different order every time. However, I haven't tested it, so if you try this, please let us know how it works ... :)Sincerely, Ken Grome ..... ken@iav.com http://usarea.net/home.html Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Banners and sort of random display (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  2. Re: Banners and sort of random display (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  3. Banners and sort of random display (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
>Since everybody is talking banners today:) > >is it possible before I spend the weekend finding it is not...to do a >search first if I gave a keyword to the data base and then do a sdir=ra. > >What I want to do is limit the banners in certain sections of my site to >their relative nature to that section of the site. > >This doesn't apply to my site but think of it this way if I was in a golf >section then the banners would be limited to a keyword of golf....and if I >was in a fishing section then the banners would be limted to only those >that dealt with fishing. But if I was in a general section then I would >remove the keyword search and let any banner display. > >[search >db=Ads.db&wokeyworddata=golf&Advertisementsort=1&Advertisementsdir=ra&max=1] >[founditems][interpret][Advertisement][/Interpret][/foundItems] >[/search] > > >I have yet to use the sdir=ra...and would the above give me back banners >with the keyword golf only, in a random order and never give me anything >that has to do with fishing. Want to make sure there is no presidence of >the sdir=ra over the keyword search. If anybody know the >answer...great...if not I guess I will give it a whirl and see what happens >this weekend.It sure seems to me like this would work, provided the sdir=ra doesn't always return the same first record every time a search is performed. I think the purpose of sdir=ra is to retrieve the records in a different order every time. However, I haven't tested it, so if you try this, please let us know how it works ... :)Sincerely, Ken Grome ..... ken@iav.com http://usarea.net/home.html Kenneth Grome

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