Presenting a list in random order

[northerncaller webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I have a client with 150+ employees, who wants a line for each of them on the corporate website I'm building, but he wants them presented in random order every time the page is downloaded, so there is no apparent favoritism. Can you do this within Dreamweaver or html? Does it need PERL scripting or MySQL? Is there a Dreamweaver extension? I'd appreciate any help anyone can give.

Thanks.

northerncaller

[mick_white]

<script language="JavaScript">
Array.prototype.shuffle= function(times){
var i,j,t,l=this.length;
while(times--){
with(Math){
i=floor(random()*l);j=floor(random()*l);}
t=this[i];this[i]=this[j];this[j]=t;
}
return this;
}
var employees=["Alabama","Alaska","Arizona","Arkansas","Californi a","Colorado","Connecticut","Delaware","Florida"," Georgia","Hawaii","Idaho","Illinois","Indiana","Io wa","Kansas","Kentucky","Louisiana","Maine","Maryl and","Massachusetts","Michigan","Minnesota","Missi ssippi","Missouri","Montana","Nebraska","Nevada"," New Hampshire","New Jersey","New Mexico","New York","North
Carolina","North Dakota","Ohio","Oklahoma","Oregon","Pennsylvania", "Rhode Island","South Carolina","South Dakota","Tennessee","Texas","Utah","Vermont","Virg inia","Washington","West Virginia","Wisconsin","Wyoming"]
document.write(employees.shuffle(200).join("<BR>") )
</script>

"\"northerncaller\" webforumsuser"@macromedia.com wrote:

> I have a client with 150+ employees, who wants a line for each of them on the corporate website I'm building, but he wants them presented in random order every time the page is downloaded, so there is no apparent favoritism. Can you do this within Dreamweaver or html? Does it need PERL scripting or MySQL? Is there a Dreamweaver extension? I'd appreciate any help anyone can give.
>
> Thanks.
>
> northerncaller

[jason kennedy]

What would exhibit less favouritism than simple alphabetical order?
It's worked in that arena of inflated egos, the theatre, for hundreds of
years
And how about when someone wants to scan the list to find one of your 150
employees?
Will they appreciate the random aspect then?

just suggestions

Jason

"mick_white" <mick@gerrytimlin.com> wrote in message
news:3F268663.9CCA6AFE@gerrytimlin.com...

> <script language="JavaScript">
> Array.prototype.shuffle= function(times){
> var i,j,t,l=this.length;
> while(times--){
> with(Math){
> i=floor(random()*l);j=floor(random()*l);}
> t=this[i];this[i]=this[j];this[j]=t;
> }
> return this;
> }
> var

employees=["Alabama","Alaska","Arizona","Arkansas","Californi a","Colorado","
Connecticut","Delaware","Florida","Georgia","Hawai i","Idaho","Illinois","Ind
iana","Iowa","Kansas","Kentucky","Louisiana","Main e","Maryland","Massachuset
ts","Michigan","Minnesota","Mississippi","Missouri ","Montana","Nebraska","Ne
vada","New Hampshire","New Jersey","New Mexico","New York","North

> Carolina","North Dakota","Ohio","Oklahoma","Oregon","Pennsylvania", "Rhode

Island","South Carolina","South
Dakota","Tennessee","Texas","Utah","Vermont","Virg inia","Washington","West
Virginia","Wisconsin","Wyoming"]

> document.write(employees.shuffle(200).join("<BR>") )
> </script>
>
> "\"northerncaller\" webforumsuser"@macromedia.com wrote:
>

> > I have a client with 150+ employees, who wants a line for each of them

on the corporate website I'm building, but he wants them presented in random
order every time the page is downloaded, so there is no apparent favoritism.
Can you do this within Dreamweaver or html? Does it need PERL scripting or
MySQL? Is there a Dreamweaver extension? I'd appreciate any help anyone can
give.

> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > northerncaller

>