Display Random Image from a Folder

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  13 years ago

  by Trilarian

  Trilarian

  New Orleans, United States

  Joined 15 years ago
  Hey guys/gals,
  
  In all the programming I've done, I have strayed from Internet coding as much as possible... but now I am in need of a simple script.  Short story is I have helped a friend setup a forum based web site with a news page to the forum.  What I would like to do is have an opening image that is a random selection from all the available images placed in a folder.  So I need a php script that would do the following(I will increment MaxImage each time I add a new artwork submission):
  
  intRandom = Int((Rnd * MaxImage) + 1)
  Select Case intRandom
       Case 1
            Display /path/to/image1.jpg link to news.php
       Case 2
            Display /path/to/image2.jpg link to news.php
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  End Select
  
  Assuming the link would be resolved by using href.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  13 years ago

  by naveeng_mca05

  Robin

  India, India

  Joined 15 years ago

  why cant you try it like this,
  organize image names like image_1.jpg,image_2.jpg,......,image_20.jpg
  
  then pick up a ramdom number form 1 to 20 and store it in $randNo.
  
  <image src="<?php echo"images/artwork/image_". $randNo.".jpg" ?> />
  
  
  
  
  

  hope this is useful for you

   

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