Rotating JPG?

[Elite Anubis Guard]

How exactly do you make the rotating JPG banner?

[Valórin]

Is that directed at me?

Firstly I use a huge bit of trickery.

What you see as: sgu.valorin.net/randBanner.jpg

The file you are running is actually sgu.valorin.net/randBanner.jpg/index.php
Yes, randBanner.jpg is a folder name, and because it is such the server will return the index.php file inside it when it is called, thus returning a random image, while pretending to be a .jpg. Many scripts in forums and such check image extensions to make sure they are real images and not .php files..... which it is

The index.php file contains this script
<?PHP
header("Content-type: image/jpg"); //Tell the browser its a jpg image

$pic[] = < array of images > ;

$max = count($pic) - 1;
$this = rand(0, $max); //Pic a random image
readfile($pic[$this]); //Open chosen image file
?>


Make sense?

[Elite Anubis Guard]

I get what you mean...I take it array of image is the name or URL?

[Valórin]

An array with all the file names (and links to them). I am planning on developing a version which just reads all the files in a folder, so all you need is to do is put the index.php in a folder, make a subfolder called images/ and then put the images in there and it will do the rest. Once I do that I'll release the code on my website and give you a link (with proper instructions for use)

[Elite Anubis Guard]

Danke shone.

[Valórin]

I finished my last exam this morning!!!
So, I've upgraded the script. Found here: valorin.net/code/randImg/