Gavin Henry wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to get a random image/"Tip of the Day" from a list of
> images/tips for one of our sites. I was playing naively with:
>
> [% USE Math %]
>
> [% tips = [ 'test'
> 'test1'
> 'test2'
> 'test3' ] %]
>
> [% Math.rand(tips) %]
>
> But in my eyes tips is an array ref, so it will be using the memory
> address of that array and giving me a random fractional number greater
> than or equal to 0 and less than the value of this address.
>
> What's the proper way ;-)
My version of TT2 doesn't have the Math plugin, but I think this should
work:
[% USE Math %]
[% tips = ['test','test1','test2','test3'] %]
[% tips.${Math.rand(tips.size)} %]
Philip
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