Random Number Gen on Submission

[LostGeographer]

Hey all,

Let me start off by for-warning you I have not ventured in to PHP in probably 7 years, but I am jumping back in. I am however not looking for someone to do the work for me, but point me in the right direction. I think this stuff is still in there, it just needs some help getting out.

Just installed SMF 2.0.1 on my box here and I want to add a mod that would create a random number, then display an associated outcome with that number on the finished post (not visible in preview). But I am completely baffled as to where to even go to begin this. I do remember my if/else statements so I think I can work out the code, just not sure where it would go.

Thanks for any help offered.

[Matthew K.]

Hey there, and welcome to the SMF Community!

SMF is programmed using an MVC, meaning logic/source is separated from the markup/templates.

So, there's the base directory for logic which is ./Sources, and the base directory for templates which is ./Themes (./Themes/default for Curve).

For a given action, there should be two primary files, with additional "Subs" files possible, for instance...?action=my_action would have a controller file "./Sources/MyAction.php" with the template loaded using the loadTemplate(); function, ./Themes/default/MyAction.template.php.

That's obviously a very brief explanation of how it actually works, and different possibilities there are.

You'll probably want to look at Display.php and Display.template.php (./Sources & ./Themes/default correspondingly)