how to show articles and blogs in homepage random

I would like to show random and not latest, does anyone know where to change the "latest" to "rand"

Thanks

http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/GenDolFAQs scroll down to "How can I specify different default tabs for Classifieds, Polls, etc. on the Home Page?"

thanks ggsinc, i found it but i dont have "Open the file templates/base/scripts/BxBaseIndex.php and follow these steps"

i have bxbaseindexpageview.php (7.0.9) and the changes i should make are not in that file..

hummmmmm?

still serching but no luck :(

I can't find anything either, nor can I find anything in the changesets that show where these options were moved to in later upgrades. Sorry :(

ggsinc,

thanks for trying

 anyone know where this file was moved to?

still looking :(

im still looking for this, can someone please point me in the right direction

Thank u...

ssh into your web server and cd to templates/base/scripts

then type grep -r 'latest'  *

it will show all the files that contain the word latest.

Then you can open each file with your favorite editor and find the code section.

Maybe even find more places to change!  :D

 hey steve, thanks for the help but you lost me, how do i do that search? i went to cpanel but then got lost? please be more detailed on where in cpanel to search. thanks for the help

 Not cPanel..[edit] I'm wrong here on this.

 hey newton, what sounds simple to you is confusion to me lol what does he mean by ssh and cd?

i went to my cpanel but didnt know what to do from there... sorry im not really a programmer or experienced on this just learning as i go with the help of everyone.

thanks

 I'm sorry, not intended to mean anything.

If you don't know what SSH is then you won't be able to do what Steve is suggesting.

It's a "terminal" window, looks like old school DOS..

[edit] this is going to be your best start to understand what it is.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ssh+into+server&oq=ssh+into+server&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=youtube.3...7751.30128.0.30273.41.27.4.0.0.3.611.4312.13j9j1j0j3j1.27.0...0.0.QFLdKnlsNtI

In your cPanel, look for the "Security" section, you may have access there.

SSH/Shell Access

 no, dont see ssh/shell access anywhere in cpanel :(

do you backup and download your backups :)

unzip the latest and use grepwin to search, search google for suitable link for grepwin.

[edit]

what time is used on the server, my local time is 22H51 not 15Hxx. lol

 thanks equestrian, did the search using the tool but did not find the option to make articles and block show random on the homepage..

great tool will have in mind for other things

is this really that complicated in 7.0.9?

still trying to make homepage articles, blogs and polls be random rather than latest...

you guy know why more than myself so please help me figure this out..

those who have tried I do thank u for tying..

omg like 4 months try'n to figure this out, and still no luck arrrgggggg

I tried a low tech search (just did a search w/i the dolphin 7.0.9 folder on my computer for 'latest') and these files came up:

BxAdsSearchUnit.php

BxBaseSearchResultSharedMedia.php

BxBlogsSearchUnit.php

Maybe this code? (I'm not willing to test this out on my site since so many things are already held together with duct tape!!!):

    function getTopMenu ($aExclude = array()) {
        $aDBTopMenu = array();
        $aLinkAddon = $this->getLinkAddByPrams($aExclude);
        foreach (array('last', 'top') as $sMyMode) {
              switch ($sMyMode) {
                   case 'last':
                         $sModeTitle = '_Latest';
                            break;
                   case 'top':
                        $sModeTitle = '_Top';
                        break;
              }