I've come up with an idea to make the site's random tag line feature a somewhat more sophisticated. By the way, the tag line is that little bit of text under the Rob Ruff.Net logo in the upper left corner of the page. I realize that MT calls this text the Blog Description, but the lines that I'm using don't really describe my blog, so I call them tag lines. They're mostly there for amusement.
Anyway, here's my idea: Some of the tag lines I'm using are quotes from movies, and others are just random sayings, not connected to any particular work. If the tag line is a quote from a movie, I would like it to be a hyperlink to that movie's page on the IMDb, but if it's just a random saying, like "The Greatest Web Site. Ever.", I don't want it to be a link to anything. Though I suppose I could make it a link to some random page, but for now let's suppose that I only want the movie quotes to be links.
The easiest way to accompish this, in my estimation, is to store the necessary information in a database (MySQL, of course), and let PHP take care of the rest. Looking through my copy of MySQL Cookbook, I found a nice recipe on selecting random items from a table. This will certainly be useful in putting my little program together. As before, I will post my code here when it's completed.
Hi, I found your blog via Rayners.org
You might want to look and see if the RandomLine plugin will do what you want.
http://www.sunpig.com/martin/projects/mt/randomline/
Oh, I just read some of your older entries and I can see why you decided not to go with the plugin after all. Sorry about that!