Image Rotator

[J189]

okay, just wondering if anyone knows of a script or something to rotate an image on a website. I know there are lots out there, but I need one that rotates a link for the picture. I want each time someone accesses the link (www.mypage.com/mypic.jpg for example) I want it to display a different picture.

I know there are lots of javascripts etc. that will rotate the image on a page, but thats not what I want

any help or suggestions would be greatly appreicated

[+Daemon+]

can you sue php? I have some code already to do this, its very ez

  <?
  //Set random engine
  srand((double)microtime()*1000000); 
  //Set what to make random
  $random_img = array("<img src=\"img1.jpg\" alt=\"this is image 1\" border=\"0\">",
  "<img src=\"img2.jpg\" alt=\"this is image 2\" border=\"0\">",
  "<img src=\"img3.jpg\" alt=\"this is image 3\" border=\"0\">",
  "<img src=\"img4.jpg\" alt=\"this is image 4\" border=\"0\">",
  "<img src=\"img5.jpg\" alt=\"this is image 5\" border=\"0\">");
  //Calc the random images
  srand(time());
      $sizeof = count($random_img);
      $random = (rand()%$sizeof);
      
  //Display Random Image
  echo $random_img[$random];
  ?>

[J189]

yah I can use php code, just as long as when someone clicks on the link to the picture (a link not on my page) it loads a different picture

[J189]

I don't think that will work, it just rotates pictures on a page

I have webspace, but I need to link to a bunch of pictures from another website, so when someoen loads the image www.mypage.com/mypic.jpg or whatever the link is, I want it to display a different picture

[+Daemon+]

oooh like a angelfire thing

[+Daemon+]

here

http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive...ctimages.shtml

[J189]

here

http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive...ctimages.shtml

Um, maybe, I could be wrong, but isnt' that script just to prevent people from linking to your picture on your website?? The Thing is I Want people to link to a certain picture on my site, but everytime they load that link a different picture will appear. The way this other site is set up is it will only allow a link to a picture (.jpg, .gif), and it was originally only designed to link to one picture, but I want it to rotate the image. So when it loads www.mysite.com/picture.jpg like it normally does, I want the picture ot be different each time

I know this sounds confusing, but I think it should be able to be done, I'm hosting the images off a good host, not just geocites or whatever if free

[+Daemon+]

so like a javascript image click rotation, but have the link the same?


somthing in the means of
http://www.codebelly.com/javascript/...gechange.html#

[J189]

so like a javascript image click rotation, but have the link the same?


somthing in the means of
http://www.codebelly.com/javascript/...gechange.html#

Sorry, I know my request is really confusing, and I suck at explaining

This is sorta what I want to do (same idea)

It would sorta be the same as having an avatar for a messageboard, in the messageboard you specify the address for your avator (www.mysite.com/avatar.jpg), normally it would display the same pic everytime. My goal is to have a directory of images hosted off my website, that would display a new picture each time the messageboard loads the avatar from the location you specify, instead of the same picture each time.

This might be impossible, but I sorta think it can be done

[+Daemon+]

you would have to use that php random code and set the server extitions to use jpg as a php file then put in that code and have it open a random image and them rewrite the image and spit it out. So the avatar.jpg looks like a image file but its really a big php file named as a jpg... get it ?

kinda like this (the image create part)

http://daemonprojects.com/imgcreate/go.php

note it refreshes to the image, thats because im lazy and didnt setup my apache.conf file to use jpg files as a page.

[J189]

you would have to use that php random code and set the server extitions to use jpg as a php file then put in that code and have it open a random image and them rewrite the image and spit it out. So the avatar.jpg looks like a image file but its really a big php file named as a jpg... get it ?

kinda like this (the image create part)

http://daemonprojects.com/imgcreate/go.php

note it refreshes to the image, thats because im lazy and didnt setup my apache.conf file to use jpg files as a page.

Cool, thanks Daemon, you've been a ton of help