technical question

[tielan]

Hm. Anyone on my f-list know how to set up the .php code for a 'rotating' set of banners on a regular webpage? Anyone on my f-list know how to explain to me how to set up the .php code for a 'rotating' set of banners on a regular webpage?

Comments

[beanie-j.livejournal.com]

The easiest way I know is the following...

<?php $ri=rand(0,10); ?>
<img src="<?php echo $ri; ?>">

Whereby you insert this code where the image goes, you change the extension to whatever image type you are using, and the images in the rotation are numbered from 1-10 and placed in the same folder as the file containing this script. Of course, this has to be a .php file for this to work...

If you have another code in mind, let me have it and I might be able to help you with that...

[tielan]

Okay, I admit to knowing very little about .php scripts and how they work.

(I should probably research this. I just wanted a rotating banner and knew that .php code was involved somehow.)

I'm presuming that .php works in concert with html, rather than instead of html, mostly because I'm a lazy ass and don't want to completely recode my pages. Under this assumption, at some point in the html page code, a .php script would be declared, and the script is stored in the same directory as the .html file for the page.

the images in the rotation are numbered from 1-10

So it would be 1.jpg, 2.jpg...etc? Or could you call it header1.jpg, header2.jpg...etc and then tell the script to look for a file called "headern.jpg"?

[beanie-j.livejournal.com]

Files can be a combination of HTML and PHP, however, for this code to work, all the pages need the extention .php rather than .html. No recoding is necessary - you'd just put this code in the HTML where the existing image is.

There are ways to do it with scripts that are linked in - these are more flexible - however they still require a .php extension to run since they use an include to make the script execute.

Ergo, whichever way you do it, to use PHP to do this, you have a lot of extension renaming in your future.

[tielan]

Ergo, whichever way you do it, to use PHP to do this, you have a lot of extension renaming in your future.

Eek. *rethinks this*

[beanie-j.livejournal.com]

I do believe you can also do this with a JavaScript...

[tielan]

Ooh. I'll check out that avenue, too, then...

[beanie-j.livejournal.com]

And yes, it would be 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc...

You could probably folderise by adding folder/ before the PHP code in the img attribute.

[pandora-576.livejournal.com]

Here's a site with JavaScript code

JavaScript (http://javascript.internet.com/miscellaneous/rotating-banner.html)

[tielan]

Thank you!

[pandora-576.livejournal.com]

You're welcome :)

[beanie-j.livejournal.com]

The easiest way I know is the following...

<?php $ri=rand(0,10); ?>
<img src="<?php echo $ri; ?>">

Whereby you insert this code where the image goes, you change the extension to whatever image type you are using, and the images in the rotation are numbered from 1-10 and placed in the same folder as the file containing this script. Of course, this has to be a .php file for this to work...

If you have another code in mind, let me have it and I might be able to help you with that...

[tielan]

Okay, I admit to knowing very little about .php scripts and how they work.

(I should probably research this. I just wanted a rotating banner and knew that .php code was involved somehow.)

I'm presuming that .php works in concert with html, rather than instead of html, mostly because I'm a lazy ass and don't want to completely recode my pages. Under this assumption, at some point in the html page code, a .php script would be declared, and the script is stored in the same directory as the .html file for the page.

the images in the rotation are numbered from 1-10

So it would be 1.jpg, 2.jpg...etc? Or could you call it header1.jpg, header2.jpg...etc and then tell the script to look for a file called "headern.jpg"?

[beanie-j.livejournal.com]

Files can be a combination of HTML and PHP, however, for this code to work, all the pages need the extention .php rather than .html. No recoding is necessary - you'd just put this code in the HTML where the existing image is.

There are ways to do it with scripts that are linked in - these are more flexible - however they still require a .php extension to run since they use an include to make the script execute.

Ergo, whichever way you do it, to use PHP to do this, you have a lot of extension renaming in your future.

[tielan]

Ergo, whichever way you do it, to use PHP to do this, you have a lot of extension renaming in your future.

Eek. *rethinks this*

[beanie-j.livejournal.com]

I do believe you can also do this with a JavaScript...

[tielan]

Ooh. I'll check out that avenue, too, then...

[beanie-j.livejournal.com]

And yes, it would be 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc...

You could probably folderise by adding folder/ before the PHP code in the img attribute.

[pandora-576.livejournal.com]

Here's a site with JavaScript code

JavaScript (http://javascript.internet.com/miscellaneous/rotating-banner.html)

[tielan]

Thank you!

[pandora-576.livejournal.com]

You're welcome :)