Random Images...

Fajitas!

I really need help... Heh.

Bet you didn't see that one coming.

Right - On my homepage, I have a series of different images with my logo on top. I'm not great with coding, but would know a wee bit. I'm really stuck however, on the fact that I want the image on the main page to be different with each refresh - I've tried flash & don't like the load up time much.

If anyone could offer a link, some advice, anything, it would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks in advance!

Liam Byrne

Depends on what you're using.....PHP can do this itself, automatically getting a list of images in a directory and displaying the image source for a random one.

You can also set a JavaScript array, explicitly setting the filenames of the images, and then get a random number and use that array element.

But it definitely depends on what you're using.

Fajitas!

Well, so far all is in HTML, and have a random image generator using Javascript (which was all done by my friend (440hz here) ), but I don't want the images changing at all, until the page is refreshed - http://www.alhigginsphotography.com is the site as is, though I'll be making a revamp of it as soon as I get this working.

Would you reccomend anything in particular? I've yet to do anything serious with Php

DonkeyStyle \o/

<img src="images/image<?php print rand(1,10); ?>.jpg">

Will load a pseudo-random image in the range of 1 to 10 upon page load/refresh.

So just make:
/images/image1.jpg
/images/image2.jpg
[..]
/images/image10.jpg

Easy phpeezee

Fajitas!

Lol, thanks!



Day off tomorrow, will finish the site!

Thanks again DonkeyStyle, owe you a pint if yer at the next beers...was going off my head with that one!

DonkeyStyle \o/

No worries dude, just make sure to name the page with a .php extension and not .html so the webserver knows to parse the php.

GP

and hope that you have php setup on your server ;-)