Hello,

I've been struggling to try to make a custom comcode that would well, roll dice. Basically I wanted to do something like


which would give me some random number from such a dice roll. I've tried to find similar bbcode dice rollers out there to have something to go by since comcode isn't too distant from bbcode (or is it), but I've had no luck.

Anyone have any ideas?

{$SET_RAND,1,2,3,4,5,6}

Thanks for the quick reply Chris. You really need a "buy me a beer" button lol.

Curious, this would obviously work for a simple d6 dice roll. Is there any way to make it more user defined? Lets say from my previous 1d12 example, it would take the number in front of the "d" to know how many dice to roll and the number after the "d" to know how many numbers to randomize.

EDIT: Testing the code out, there's one problem. It changes in the posts it was used in each time the page is refreshed.

Ok, that's pretty specific, would need some custom code. Could probably be done with a lot of Tempcode, but would probably be easier done via a custom miniblock.

Ah I kind of thought that might be the case. That's ok, I can use what you gave me to develop a simple d100 which would cover 90% of the dice rolling needs for my community. Anything beyond that well, dice rollers exist all over the place.

I just need to figure out a way to stop the rolled results from changing in the post after the page refreshes. Any hints Chris, or anyone else for that matter?

Made this screenshot so you can see what I mean. Was gonna just edit my last post and add it, but saw someone read it and didn't want the screenshot missed.

I could write some Tempcode that would give a unique value per-URL, by using the URL as a key to store a generated value against. But the shoutbox case is difficult, again I think would need custom code, or some super-contextual hack where the template is putting in the Timestamp to a Tempcode GET/SET variable and then the Tempcode using that. I wouldn't recommend, would be very messy.

Edit: Actually I'd struggle to even do against the URL, I can't see a way to save data from Tempcode.

Ah this is disappointing indeed. It is a shame that the number keeps regenerating in other posts/shouts when the screen refreshes. Seems like wasted resources IMO. I guess I won't be able to use comcode to have a simple dice roller.

Just because I like you …

First I had to make a code change to allow Custom Comcode tag hooks with PHP code (previously it had to only be Tempcode). This will be in the next patch release:
https://github.com/ocproducts/composr/commit/09ea2cffc609e260427071f63948de9724f53d8f

Then here's a Custom Comcode tag hook…
sources_custom/hooks/systems/comcode/roller.php:

You can use either like this to just give an option from a set of options:
[roller="some_id"]1,2,3,4,5,6[/roller]
or like this to do your multiple dice rolling (assumption of numeric dice starting with '1'):
[roller="some_id"]3d10[/roller]

It's important to pass some_id uniquely for each roll, as the tag will otherwise lose its value if the Comcode cache is emptied. The ID gives it a key to cache against.

It would be great if you could write this up into a tutorial (in a topic) and add it to the tutorial directory. I don't want to personally maintain this as an addon, but it's pretty straight-forward and a good programming example.

Haha thanks Chris! You are alright!

I'll test this out and tomorrow I'll see about putting it in tutorials for you. I did try to so something similar using php but got the fun little warning with composr protecting me from using the evil php.

And done, because by tomorrow I obviously meant today.