Re: [PHP] Re: Dear Lazy Web: Pseudo Randomisation Strategies on Listing Websites

2010-08-20 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote: > The customer is always right -> in his own mind (even if not in his RIGHT > mind) <- after all! Corrected that for you. ;-) Andrew -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Dear Lazy Web: Pseudo Randomisation Strategies on Listing Websites

2010-08-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 15:19 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Andrew Ballard at 20/08/10 15:04 did gyre and gimble: > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote: > >> Speaking of SEO, that was one of our concerns about randomising listings > >> too. What impact do you t

Re: [PHP] Re: Dear Lazy Web: Pseudo Randomisation Strategies on Listing Websites

2010-08-20 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Andrew Ballard at 20/08/10 14:24 did gyre and gimble: >> Would it work to return a list of some limited number of randomly >> ordered "featured" listings/items on the page, while leaving the full >> list ordered by whatever

Re: [PHP] Re: Dear Lazy Web: Pseudo Randomisation Strategies on Listing Websites

2010-08-20 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote: > Thanks everyone for responses. > > 'Twas brillig, and Nathan Rixham at 20/08/10 13:17 did gyre and gimble: >> if you use mysql you can seed rand() with a number to get the same >> random results out each time (for that seed number) >> >>   SE