php function needed – "De-randomize"?

  • simto

    (@simto)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    Hello

    I really like Chris Coyiers post about a “Randomized grid of Posts“

    I don’t know php that well, so I would like to hear if you could help with the following: In Chris’ post he writes the following for handling the content:

    <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="box col<?php echo rand(2,4); ?>">
      <span class="title"><?php the_title(); ?></span>
      <img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'PostThumb', true); ?>" alt="" />
      <span class="ex"><?php the_excerpt(); ?></span>
    </a>

    As I understand it this part: <?php echo rand(2,4); ?>, is what “randomizes” the grid by choosing a random number between 2,3 and 4 for each box.

    I would very much like to do the opposite, but I don’t know the command in php. I would like to get a ordered sequence of boxes, eg. 1,2,3,4,5,1,2,3,4,5,1,2,3,4,5 etc. Is it possible to change the “echo rand” command so it does the opposite – an ordered array/sequence of numbers?

    Hope you can help…

    Cheers

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  • BoUk

    (@bouk)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    You can try something like this:

    <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php $i = 1; ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

			<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="box col<?php echo $i; ?>">
				<span class="title"><?php the_title(); ?></span>
				<img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'PostThumb', true); ?>" alt="" />
				<span class="ex"><?php the_excerpt(); ?></span>
			</a>
      <?php 

        $i++;

        if ( $i%5 == 0 ) $i = 1;

      ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

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