Yup, that's the roulette selection, as they call it. It's pretty simple,
actually. The idea is that you use a concept similar to a roulette table,
just that the sectors aren't equal -- they're equal to their respective
weights. The procedure is as follows:
1. Assign the weighting to each of the pages;
2. Create an array with the pages' URL's;
3. Create an array with the same size as (2), with the weights of each
respective page to the same index as the URL's;
4. Find out the sum of all values in the array at (3);
5. Generate a random number between 0 and the number found out at (4);
6. Walk (3) while sum of elements in (3) you already walked is smaller than
(5). When the condition is false, remember the index;
7. (6)-1 is the index in (2) you need.
If you need more info, don't hesitate to ask me!
Bogdan
John Hawkins wrote:
I have an internal project I'm working on where I
would like to randomly send visitors to different
pages, but, I want to be able to give some pages a
better chance of getting shown.
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