Can I use Wiki.Page to somehow display a random section from a given page?

[cfrisch]

Hello- Using Mindtouch Core on a local test server. We have a fun page in our Wiki called "Need a laugh?" Each video or picture on this page is separated into it's own section using headers. I would like to somehow randomly pull a section of this page into a section on our main page, either with every page load or once a day. Does anyone know how I could make this happen automatically? I'm new to mindtouch deki, but very impressed thus far. I just wish I had found it before we implemented our MediaWiki installation.

Thanks for the help!

Curt

[himikel]

hi Curt!! welcome to this community
I've prepared a code in our SandBox pages with two samples, one to get all sections of a page and other to get a random section, yo can see its:
- Source code of samples: http://gurework.com/MindTouch/SandBo...&action=source
- Samples in action: http://gurework.com/MindTouch/SandBox/Page_Sections
- The page that samples are using to get sections: http://gurework.com/OpenKoop
If you want to maintain the same random page for a day, you could use WebCache cache functions, i've prepare another simple sample here:
- Source code: http://gurework.com/MindTouch/SandBo...&action=source
- Sample in action: http://gurework.com/MindTouch/SandBox/WebCache
You can combine this cache sample with the previous random sample to get a different random page section every day
happy sharing hugs!!
Mikel - @himikel

[cfrisch]

Awesome! Thanks Mikel!

You'll have to excuse my ignorance, but I'm having a hard time understanding how/where to use the code.

Here is what the source looks like on the SOURCE page:


<h5>Gangnam Style</h5>
<p>{{ media{ source: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0" } }}</p>
<h5>Gang Fight</h5>
<p>{{ media{ source: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GaKaGwch0U&amp;list=UU67f2Qf7FYhtoUIF4Sf2 9cA&amp;index=28&amp;feature=plpp_video" } }}</p>
<h5>Russian Unicorn</h5>
<p>{{ media{ source: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjaZNYSt7o0&amp;feature=relmfu" } }}</p>
<h5>TV Bloopers</h5>
<p>{{ media{ source: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVg2dQBi-wU" } }}</p>
<h5>Batman Payton</h5>
<p><img alt="payton_batman.jpg" class="internal default" src="/@api/deki/files/23/=payton_batman.jpg" /></p>

As you can see, the sections are established using h5 headers. Is there a more efficient way to divide the sections so that it will work with your code?

Also, for get random section, I see you have:

Path: '/OpenKoop'
Section #4 Len: 234

That looks like you might be identifying the specific section and its length that you want to pull. Not just any random section from the given page "/OpenKoop". Is that correct? Where have I gone wrong?

Thanks again for your assistance!!

Curt