Re: fortune-like pyblosxom plugin?

In general, doing dynamically generated entries like that will make people
who read your blog through a a feed irritated.  I would instead stick
dynamically generated text in your head or foot templates.

I had a plugin that did exactly what you're mentioning, but then deleted
it after I discovered the issues involved.  It was something along these
lines:

%<------------------------------------
import commands, time
from Pyblosxom.entries.base import generate_entry

def cb_prepare(args):
    request = args["request"]
    data = request.getData()
    entry_list = data["entry_list"]

    output = commands.getstdout("/usr/bin/fortune")[1]

    entry = generate_entry(req, {}, output, time.localtime()

    entry_list.insert(0, entry)
%<------------------------------------


/will


On Thu, 20 May 2004, gabor wrote:
>
> i have a textfile with random quotes from different people (like a
> fortune file)...
>
> i'd like to have one randomly taken from it and displayed as the first
> entry in my blog...is that possible somehow? are there any plugins for
> that?


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