Posted by password on 11/11/06 17:52

<no@emails.thx> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:13:34 -0000, "password" <fatpipe@epiptaf.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> ><no@emails.thx> wrote in message
> >news:cva9l25fib1mgs71g3q72dltte0371fomj@4ax.com...
> >> 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.
> >
>
> Hmm, I might have misunderstood you somewhere but this function will
> let you do that - it returns a file name and you just put it into an
> <img> tag - like:
>
> <img src="<?php echo header_rotate(); ?>" />
>
oh yeah i know how to do that already - it was a case of getting a new img
to appear on a daily basis rather than on refresh or accessing of a page...
as i said somewhere else i think people are getting confused because of the
terms i have been using due to my ignorance. appologies and many thanks

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