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ok cool counter works
phew I was freaking out, cause without the counter my cool new blog was broken , I also found a smarty random function {1|rand:5} that will generate random number between 1 and 5 and i can use this to randomly show the blocks
Now the random number should not generate the same number again. lets see what it does
sanku garvin

ok problem. counter cannot be used inside an if statement. So i cannot check the counter.

I think that can be done by accessing the $smarty array somehow, or using {assign}...?

REgards,
Garvin

yeah i'm trying the assign function
{assign var="inc" value={counter}}
but that won't work cause u cannot have {} inside {}
{assign var="inc" value=counter}
this assigns the word counter not the value

i tried this
<?php
$smarty->assign('inc', '{counter}');
?>

doesn't work either

Yeah, that's all right. But Smarty stores the current counter value somehwere in a $smarty array. You may need to ask the smarty people/documentation for more info on that, at Least I don't know much about it.
Something like http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/languag ... smarty.php.

Regards,
Garvin

ok this worked
{counter assign=inc print=false}
{assign var="allow" value=0|rand:1}
{if $inc gt 1 and $inc lt 6 and $allow==1}
{$entry.plugin_display_dat}
{/if}

now i can randomly place the ads between post 1 and 6

plus i'm noticing on smarty forum, people don't like to use {counter} rather they seem to use {section}

btw the smarty version we have is 2.5.0 the version the latest version is 2.6.10. Should i upgrade the smarty or is it something i should not fiddle with

We should have Smarty 2.6.9, I think!

Regards,
Garvin

ok the release notes in the smarty folder says 2.5.0
its ok i guess.

I think they didn't update that release file in their release for quite some time. But I know we have 2.6.9, and that 2.6.10 doesn't have that required changes for us, so I decided to stay with a working smarty

Regards,
Garvin

one more thing, do the blocks have unique Ids. So i can call them specifically from my entries.tpl file

Uh, can you be more specific on your block-ID question? The have unique IDs in the database, yes...

Regards,
Garvin

what i meant was is that if i have like 5 blocks, and i only want to display 2 of them. So can i in my entries.tpl file directly call them. like {$entry.plugin_display_block2} or something. right now all the blocks are shown randomly, but i want to select which ones get shown randomly and whch one not random

Hm, I don't know, you'll need to try. I think it must be done within the Plugin PHP code, you can build a smarty function that prints a block yourself there.

Regards,
Garvin