Random Banners

[gscfan]

Does anyone know any good scripts for making a banner ad different every time the site reloads? Thanks

[nade]

Do you mean a random image, or a random image and link?

For a random image, you can try this simple php script

<?php

$path = "nade/";

function GetDir($sPath, &$avatars) 
{
   $handle=opendir($sPath); 

   while ($file = readdir($handle)) 
   {
    if ($file != "." && $file != "..") 
    {
        $avatars[count($avatars)] = $file; 
    }
   }
   closedir($handle); 
}

   $avatars = array();

   GetDir($path, &$avatars);

   $i = 0; 

   while($avatars[$i] != "")
   {
    $i++;
   }
   $i = rand(0, $i-1);

   include("".$path."".$avatars[$i]."");
?>

replace nade/ in $path, with the folder your images are in. then just call the php script.

[suzaku]

if your server can't read php then you could always use a javascript

you could find one at:

Javafile
Dynamic Drive

[Keiichi]

I would probably use javascript for this (hopefully most of your visitors have Javascript enabled browsers). With JS, you can also make it rotate randomly every certain amount of time without reloading the page.

[suzaku]

hai hai

JS is the most flexible language ^^

[rei123456789]

i wrote a very simple script similar to nades for this. All you need to do is name the images with a number. Have the script creating a random number, then store the number in a variable. This will then show the image by using img src="$var.jpg". You can do it in less than 10 lines of code or so. Very simple php script, and much more reliable than java ^_^

[clint999]

I would probably use javascript for this (hopefully most of your visitors have Javascript enabled browsers). With JS, you can also make it rotate randomly every certain amount of time without reloading the page.

[zenpher]

Here use this:

http://javascript.internet.com/misce...dom-image.html

It's fairly self explanatory.