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I tried making a script that would randomly pick a Background and put it on the page as normal, from the Scripts background.php

e.g.



but it didn't seem to work. My question is is they way I'm trying possible and all it is is that I've got the code wrong??? Or is that way of putting an Image on a page not possible??

No probs.

Thanx you two, I figured that's the only way to do it, I just wanted to check, as I saw somthing like it in a Random Advert Script for GCI where the script was called from the Tag.

Cheers though :o)

Hrm.

Not sure what you are doing. The only way I could think of is if you were using the GIF modules in PHP to randomly pick a picture, fomrat the headers and send "background.php" as a *.gif file. No offence but somehow I doubt it (because it's stupid). Here's how I'd do it:

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And in background.php:

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$images[] = "foo.gif";
$images[] = "bar.gif";
$images[] = "sit.gif";

srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
$num = rand(0, sizeof($images);
echo($images[$num]);
?>
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However, a better way to do it would be to embed the above into the file and dump the images name into a variable instead of outputting it and call instead of . Less messy that way.

That probably wouldn't work unless that PHP script returned the MIME type image/jpeg or something.. certainly not the most elegant solution.

You'd (probably) be looking at something more like this

$list = `cat backgrounds.txt`; // where backgrounds.txt contains is list of possible background images..
$background = do_random_turbonutter_magic($list);
print $background;
?>
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Comments, Rob?

I tried making a script that would randomly pick a Background and put it on the page as normal, from the Scripts background.php

e.g.



but it didn't seem to work. My question is is they way I'm trying possible and all it is is that I've got the code wrong??? Or is that way of putting an Image on a page not possible??