Posted by Dave Kelly on 09/25/70 11:52

Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> Toby Inkster wrote:
>> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>>
>>>> for filename in *.jpg *.gif *.png; ##list all images in directory
>>>> do
>>>> <img src=images/"${filename}" width="190">
>>>> done
>>> Sorry, no can do. HTML is only markup not scripting, to do what you
>>> wish *requires* a script either server-side (best) PHP, Perl, Python,
>>> ASP, ColdFusion, ... or client-side (not-so-good) JavaScript.
>>
>> Client-side Javascript won't do -- it has no way of reading the contents
>> of a directory on the server.
> Yes, you would have to manually make the list, I focused on the 'select
> image at random' part and overlooked the 'list all images in directory'
> part.
>
I have found a couple of PHP apps that do the job. Keeping the list of
images in the directory current was the problem. All I found required
you to make a stable list. I have not figured how to update the list on
the server.

I know that EV1 runs PHP because I have the SMF code running. I just
need to check and see what hooks to scheduling they have.

Thanks
D

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