quoteoftheday_XH
Version 0.52 (Mar 2011)
- Multi language
- language files sk, en, fr, nl, de
- validation ok
- needs at least CMSimple_XH 1.2 UTF-8
- works with pd_scripting 2.0
Quote-of-the-day_XH is a simple plugin that creates a div containing a quote from of a list of quotes. This quote changes automatically every day, selection is either at ramdom (only useful if you have many quotes) or sequentially (useful, if you don't have that many quotes).
The quotes are supposed to have all the same structure, which can be set in the configuration. Most people choose 2 lines per quote with 1st line = main text of the quote, 2nd line = author of the quote. Every line can be styled differently via css.
Implementation is simple, everything is explained in the English, Slovak and German help files. Language files are also in French and Dutch. If you want to add support for other languages, contact the author at: svasti @ svasti.de.
Quoteoftheday can be put into the text of a page and also in the template. It can even be used in combination with a newsbox but not inside a newsbox.
Download from the Demo-CMSimple-site of the author:
How does it work?
In sequential mode the plugin looks up the number of the day of the year. According to this number a quote is selected from the list.
In random mode it also looks up the number of the actual day, but then finds out if the same number is there already in the file random.txt. If not, it will clear the file, write this number into it, select at random a quote and write it also into the file. If the plugin finds that the number of the actual day is already in the random.txt file, it will not select a new quote but will show the quote from random.txt.
