UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.classic UBB.classic 6 Support Selecting Winners From Post Sweepstakes?

I'm sure I'm not the only one trying to do this to increase traffic to my board. I want to run a sweepstakes where each message posted in a month is an entry into a drawing. At the end of the month I look at the numbers of messages posted in that month, select a random number within that number of messages, and find that message so I can declare them the winner.

How in the world would I go about doing this?

Thanks.

Cool idea. As you know all the messages are numbered already [as are the users themselves].

The trick is only to create a random message picker. Software or paperware.

You COULD just get an email notification for each message posted, print them and do the old pick from a hat method. Very low tech however adn and for trees.

The alternative is to write script to do a readdir of the files in the message file names into an array. Get the $# number of the array and run a random function on it. Pick that index of the array and you have it.

Not exactly hard coding -- but not for the first timer. How's your perl experience?

Michael Farris
OpenTopicâ„¢ Product Manager

Installing UBB was my Perl experience. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> I have no problem picking the right number. I'll just use a random number picker I wrote in Cold Fusion. Thanks for your help.