How can this be done....

mastermind2005 · 21-12-2007 07:34PM #1

i want to have a user of a site click a link and have that user taken randomly to one of 3 pages... ?

MM05

jhegarty · 21-12-2007 07:38PM

mastermind2005 wrote: »

i want to have a user of a site click a link and have that user taken randomly to one of 3 pages... ?

MM05

Javascript is the easiest way ....

http://www.bloke.info/javascript/RandomURL/

mastermind2005 · 21-12-2007 07:42PM

yea little pixie

mastermind2005 · 21-12-2007 07:54PM

i take that back... i was hoping to be able to just past the code into my page and for it to work....

Webmonkey · 21-12-2007 10:53PM

Still having problems, i'd imagine this be a simple enough javascript.

Though it is just as easily done with PHP if not easier

Gordon · 21-12-2007 11:16PM

This is one way of doing it. I'm a bit clunky at PHP but it seems to work. You define an array of three pages, then make a random number between 0 and 2 and then output link with the random number as the key of the array.
[PHP]<?php
$array = array('page1.htm' , 'page2.htm' , 'page3.htm');
$random_number = rand(0, 2);
echo "Random <a href='". $array[$random_number] . "'>link!</a>";
?>[/PHP]

Or are you wanting the link to stay the same and the link then takes you to a random page after clicking - so you click on "random/index.htm" and it takes you to "random/randompage2.htm"?

Webmonkey · 21-12-2007 11:47PM

or make it a bit shorter by:
[php]
$array = array('page1.htm' , 'page2.htm' , 'page3.htm');
echo "Random <a href='". array_rand($array,1) . "'>link!</a>";
[/php]

Gordon · 21-12-2007 11:53PM

Ah, very good! My php code must be twice the length of proper coders'! Not that I write much code that is.

How can this be done....

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