Any clever php coders out there

[Guest]

At the top of my homepage, I have a banner. Every now and again I need to edit my public_html/includes/modules/new_products.php file, and change the name of the jpg it is pointing to. The section of code I change is as follows;

 

<IFRAME marginWidth=0 marginHeight=0

src="/images/rideons.jpg" frameBorder=0 width=516

scrolling=no height=172 allowTransparency>

</IFRAME>

 

In the above example the banner is called rideons.jpg

 

Does anyone know a way that instead of calling ONE jpg file, I could have it randomly display from a group of banners? So that I could have 5 banenrs on the site called banner1.jpg, banner2.jpg etc and it loads one of them at random?

 

This would obviously help my site look like it is updated more often, and mean I dont need to edit new_products.php any more.

 

Many thanks if anyone is able to help

[germ]

MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE YOU BEGIN.

 

Then replace the code you posted with this code:

 

<?php

/* coded for 5 images */
 $br = rand(0,4);

 switch ( $br ) {

 case 0:
  $random_image ='banner1.jpg';
  break;

 case 1:
  $random_image ='banner2.jpg';
  break;

 case 2:
  $random_image ='banner3.jpg';
  break;

 case 3:
  $random_image ='banner4.jpg';
  break;

 case 4:
  $random_image ='banner5.jpg';
  break;
 }
?>
<IFRAME marginWidth=0 marginHeight=0
src="/images/<?php echo $random_image; ?>" frameBorder=0 width=516
scrolling=no height=172 allowTransparency>
</IFRAME>

(I'm not "clever". I just did something very similar to this in another thread recently)

[♥geoffreywalton]

Doesn't the stock banner manager take a random banner from the group you specify and display it?

 

Then you can see banner display stats, control start end dates, control no of impressions to display etc.

[cg180659]

At the top of my homepage, I have a banner. Every now and again I need to edit my public_html/includes/modules/new_products.php file, and change the name of the jpg it is pointing to. The section of code I change is as follows;

 

<IFRAME marginWidth=0 marginHeight=0

src="/images/rideons.jpg" frameBorder=0 width=516

scrolling=no height=172 allowTransparency>

</IFRAME>

 

In the above example the banner is called rideons.jpg

 

Does anyone know a way that instead of calling ONE jpg file, I could have it randomly display from a group of banners? So that I could have 5 banenrs on the site called banner1.jpg, banner2.jpg etc and it loads one of them at random?

 

This would obviously help my site look like it is updated more often, and mean I dont need to edit new_products.php any more.

 

Many thanks if anyone is able to help

There is a pretty good contribution on that. Search random header image @ addons.oscommerce.com I've used it, and it works like this: everytime the page refreshes, it changes the header. So for example, if a customer came to your site they would see header 1, but then if they went to see a prodcut, and then come back to the index page (or whatever page ur using to place the banner) it would show a different banner image

[Guest]

There is a pretty good contribution on that. Search random header image @ addons.oscommerce.com I've used it, and it works like this: everytime the page refreshes, it changes the header. So for example, if a customer came to your site they would see header 1, but then if they went to see a prodcut, and then come back to the index page (or whatever page ur using to place the banner) it would show a different banner image

 

Sorted, many thanks for the superb help in this thread!!

[cg180659]

There is a pretty good contribution on that. Search random header image @ addons.oscommerce.com I've used it, and it works like this: everytime the page refreshes, it changes the header. So for example, if a customer came to your site they would see header 1, but then if they went to see a prodcut, and then come back to the index page (or whatever page ur using to place the banner) it would show a different banner image

Ok I think this is the link for that contribution

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1934