[HecticBen]

Hey guys,

I'm currently using a plugin in Wordpress to show shopping cart products from my BigCartel store into my Wordpress. Now the script is only showing 1 result and echos an image for the product and a text link.. These are grabbed through BigCartel's API.

However, it shows the latest product, which is not what I want. I'd like it to change everytime you refresh to a different product. I believe this is the code I'd need to edit (correct me if I'm wrong!):

function list_products($limit = 10){
    $url = $this->productsapiurl . '?limit='. $limit;
    $result = $this->pull_data($url);
    $list = '<div style="width:100%; text-align:center;">';
    foreach ($result as $item) {                      
          $list .= '<a href="' . $this->producturl . $item->permalink . '" title="' . $item->name . '"><img src="' . $this->image_url($item->images->image[0]->url) . '" height="114" /><br />' . $item->name . '</a>';              
    }        
    $list .= '</div>';
    return $list;    
  }

Can anyone help??

Many thanks!

Ben

[PHP Monkey]

HecticBen, on 22 December 2011 - 02:49 PM, said:

Hey guys,

I'm currently using a plugin in Wordpress to show shopping cart products from my BigCartel store into my Wordpress. Now the script is only showing 1 result and echos an image for the product and a text link.. These are grabbed through BigCartel's API.

However, it shows the latest product, which is not what I want. I'd like it to change everytime you refresh to a different product. I believe this is the code I'd need to edit (correct me if I'm wrong!):

function list_products($limit = 10){
    $url = $this->productsapiurl . '?limit='. $limit;
    $result = $this->pull_data($url);
    $list = '<div style="width:100%; text-align:center;">';
    foreach ($result as $item) {                      
          $list .= '<a href="' . $this->producturl . $item->permalink . '" title="' . $item->name . '"><img src="' . $this->image_url($item->images->image[0]->url) . '" height="114" /><br />' . $item->name . '</a>';              
    }        
    $list .= '</div>';
    return $list;    
  }

Can anyone help??

Many thanks!

Ben

Use the shuffle() function to randomize the array items.

<?php

function list_products($limit = 10) 
{
	$url = $this->productsapiurl . '?limit='. $limit;
	$result = $this->pull_data($url);
	$list = '<div style="width:100%; text-align:center;">';
	
	// Randomize the order of the array items.
	shuffle($result);
	
	foreach ($result as $item) {
		$list .= '<a href="' . $this->producturl . $item->permalink . '" title="' . $item->name . '"><img src="' . $this->image_url($item->images->image[0]->url) . '" height="114" /><br />' . $item->name . '</a>';              
	}
	
	$list .= '</div>';
	
	return $list;
}