Posted by Krustov on 02/22/07 23:49

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> Is it possible to reference them from a standard text file so that a
> non-techie can login to webedit pro and edit the image name and url
> everytime the ad is being changed ?
>
> The script can be java scrip or preferably PHP, once it can reference
> a .txt file...Im happy
>

It would be quite easy to write a small script that would let you
add/edit the 2 line text file for each rotating banner .

text file 1
images/banner_one.jpg
http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi?=make

text file 2
images/banner_two.jpg
http://www.whatever.com/blah.html

On your actual webpage that uses them - its just a matter of generating
a random number in order to display the banner and use the url that
accompanys it .

Assuming you have 10 banners you want to rotate .....

rnd=(10)

Assuming the above picks 4 as the random number .....

file="banners/4.txt";
read line 1
read line 2

<div> href=url image </div>

I suppose you dont really need to write a suitable script in you create
the text files offline and upload & for the most part you would only
really need to generate a random number and read the 2 lines of text to
be used .


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