Random Featured and Normal listings

[CHRD]

Easy fix to display random horizontal featured and normal listing on any page and the same page.

1/ Make a copy of function.feature_listings_horizontal.php, found in /includes/classes/smarty/plugins

2/ rename it to function.frand_listings_horizontal.php and upload to same folder

3/ open and edit line 18 function.feature_listings_horizontal.php, rename the "feature" part of the line to "frand"

4/ Edit line 57, look for featured = 'Y' ORDER BY rand() LIMIT, just change featured = 'Y' to featured = 'N'

5 edit line 158, look for function smarty_function_html_table_cycle_68($name, $var, $no). Insert a letter just before the 68, but not "v" I inserted n, so it looks like:
function smarty_function_html_table_cycle_n68($name, $var, $no)

open home.tpl.php found in /templates/default insert this code where it suitable:
{frand_listings_horizontal number=12 cols=4 table_attr='width="100%" style="border: 1px solid #cccccc;"' td_attr='valign="top" align="center"'}

This will let you display random normal listing along side the feartured listings
Thanks
Glenn

[kampbell]

Awesome. Excellent post! Is there anyway to make it specific, say like by state?

[CHRD]

Sorry I dont know that much, but I gues it would be in line 57 of the code

[CHRD]

I can make it call from a specific cat by placing
featured = 'N' AND section=58 ORDER BY rand() LIMIT ".$number;

58 = Cat ID

but it dosnt work if you enter the main cat ID with all your listings in sub cats all under a main cat but if you take out featured = 'N'
it will display normal and featured listings together

update: replace section=58 with section IN (3,4,5,6,7) to call from multi Cats
Thanks to Eric the Boss Man