----------------------------------- Corybu Sat Oct 04, 2003 4:57 pm Random images? ----------------------------------- Anyone know how to display random images? Ive got a website that I need to make for a friends band, and I have various logos that i'd like to place in a frame in the top left corner. If anyone could tell me how this os done, or point me to t autorial for it, or give me a code/script for it, Id be very grateful. Thanking you all in advance, Cory. ----------------------------------- Blade Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:09 pm ----------------------------------- well... you'd have to use some sort of scripting language... ie: perl, php etc. ----------------------------------- Corybu Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:10 pm ----------------------------------- I dont know either of those.... Could you or someone here help me out with this one? I was hoping there was an html way... ----------------------------------- Blade Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:14 pm ----------------------------------- no... html is pretty much tags that format text, it cant caculate anything well... i'd read the images from a folder into an array, then use a random integer in the array element from 1 to the amount of pictures in the array, then use html to present it... ----------------------------------- Corybu Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:15 pm ----------------------------------- Lol... I dont get it. Do all that stuff with html? or another script? Ive never done any scripting... ----------------------------------- Amailer Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:24 pm ----------------------------------- PHP: function getRandomImage($dir,$type="random") { global $errors,$seed; if (is_dir($dir)) { $fd = opendir($dir); $images = array(); while (($part = @readdir($fd)) == true) { if ( eregi("(gif|jpg|png|jpeg|bmp)$",$part) ) { $images[] = $part; } } // adding this in case you want to return the image array if ($type == 'all') return $images; if ($seed !== true) { mt_srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000); $seed = true; } $key = mt_rand (0,sizeof($images)-1); return $dir . $images[$key]; } else { $errors[] = $dir.' is not a directory'; return false; } } Javascript: http://javascript.internet.com/bgeffects/r-images.html http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Javascript%3A+random+images+script&btnG=Google+Search&meta= ----------------------------------- Corybu Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:26 pm ----------------------------------- So, with that, I just put it on the html page where I want it to appear, and put the pics in a directory all by themselves? ----------------------------------- Amailer Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:27 pm ----------------------------------- Which one you are talking about? ----------------------------------- Corybu Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:27 pm ----------------------------------- the php script ----------------------------------- Amailer Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:30 pm ----------------------------------- 1: you need php installed, create a .php file (i.e: randomeimg.php ) put the script in, and add afer that $dir="./where the/images/are/"; getRandomImage($dir); ----------------------------------- Blade Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:31 pm ----------------------------------- what amailer gave you as a function... this is the most simple way you can do it... its php... you need a server that supports php to use it, and you also need ot name your file .php instead of .htm/.html ... or else the server wont execute it.. you can see it working at http://dblade.sytes.net/new/readdir.php what it does is it reads the folder /images (which is in my new folder on the server) that is full of images, into an array.. then it gets a random number between 2 (because the first two it reads is . and .. ) and the maximum number of images in the folder, then you use the random number in the array to call a random array element ie: $arrayname[randomnumber] ----------------------------------- Corybu Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:31 pm ----------------------------------- Im assuming I need some kind of software installed to run PHP then? This site isnt getting hosted on a private server... its just going on free webhosting... Ill have to see if it can use php... ----------------------------------- Blade Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:33 pm ----------------------------------- umm... the server you're using needs to have php for you to use php... theres only a couple free server that i know of that have php... tripod.co.uk and host.sk (which isnt in english) ----------------------------------- Corybu Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:35 pm ----------------------------------- I see... Well, as long as its free, I can probably have the site hosted there... Ill just get redirect service for it. Thanks for the help guys. :) ----------------------------------- Amailer Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:36 pm ----------------------------------- better if you use the JAVASCRIPT ONE, cuz you don't have PHP ----------------------------------- Blade Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:38 pm ----------------------------------- i never think of javascript cuz its evil.... (not a real fan of java or javascript...) ----------------------------------- Corybu Sat Oct 04, 2003 11:32 pm ----------------------------------- Anyone wanna tell me the Java(script) one? My boss at work said he would find it and give it to me, but I wont see him till friday at the earliest, I want to have something to show my client (hahaha, feels so cool to call somone that) for monday. So, any help would roxorz, lol. ----------------------------------- Amailer Sat Oct 04, 2003 11:53 pm ----------------------------------- http://dblade.sytes.net/new/images/frozencavern.jpg http://dblade.sytes.net/new/images/Gohan-The_Son_of_Goku.jpg http://dblade.sytes.net/new/images/likwidassassin.jpg ahh awsome! ----------------------------------- Corybu Sat Oct 04, 2003 11:55 pm ----------------------------------- Is that blades? (url is dblade.something.somethingelse) Its nice. (note to blade, 666 posts!!! AAHHHHHH!!!!!! :twisted: ) lol.