random pics

[prophet]

I am new to this so sorry for what is probably a simple question...

I want to have a picture that changes at random each time you go to the page
so that it is different.

Thank you

[Ed Mullen]

prophet wrote:

I am new to this so sorry for what is probably a simple question...

I want to have a picture that changes at random each time you go to the page
so that it is different.

http://www.google.com/search?query=w...picture&num=50

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Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?

[while-one]

On Apr 13, 7:48 pm, "prophet" <[e-mail]:
......or do it server-side with a scripting language, perhaps php

function randPicName()
{
$cnt=-1;
$dir = opendir("/var/www/my-site/my-images/my-rands");
while ( $file = readdir($dir))
{
if($file[0] != ".") /// or call some fancier isImage function
{
$cnt++;
$pics[$cnt] = trim($file);
}
}

srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$randval = rand(2,$cnt);
$pic = $pics[$randval];

/// this is an image name only, so you'd
/// have to prepend a path to make an img src url with it.
return ($pic);
}