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Posted by password on 11/10/06 22:13
<no@emails.thx> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:55:54 -0000, "password" <fatpipe@epiptaf.com>
> wrote:
> >hello, i am using an automatic image rotator (php) which rotates images
on
> >refresh or everytime a page is accessed and i was wondering if it is
> >possible to make the image change on a daily basis instead. ive been
hunting
> >the net but dont seem to be able to find a script that would do this.
>
> I did a similar thing recently with rotating headers. Instead of using
> a date/day we just settled on using the session, so that the header
> will remain stable for the life of the session - usually the time the
> browser is open - but not change when moving between pages.
>
> I just:
> * did session_start() at the top of the pages
> * set up MAXHEADERS as a define() constant for the maximum number of
> headers
> * uploaded 5 different files like header-?.jpg
> * then called this function to return me the name of the current
> header file:
>
> function header_rotate() {
> if (!isset($_SESSION['headername'])) {
> $_SESSION['headername']='header-'.rand(1,MAXHEADERS).'.jpg';
> }
> return $_SESSION['headername'];
> }
>
> Chris R.
thanks for that, i know how to do sessions but sadly they, in this case, are
of no use because i have a site for a writer/poet who wants to have a new
poem for every day and he wants the poem to be a scanned image rather than
words.
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