Posted by Mike Silva on 12/18/06 15:52

Hi,

I'm a programmer but not a web programmer. That hasn't stopped me from
putting up a simple website, however. What I'd like to do is to be
able to do is to change the graphic that forms the tiled background for
the site, based on the calendar day. Something along the lines of

if new_date
todays_graphic = lookup_background_graphic( date )
copy( todays_graphic TO generic_background_graphic_file )

Very simple to imagine, but I have no idea how this might be done on a
web server. Obviously my question is a just a particular instance of
the general question how-do-I-run-code-on-my-website. So, how do I? I
know there are various technologies to do so, so if you folks could
just toss a few buzzwords my way I could go research things further.
Thanks!

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