Image Rotate script

I am looking for a good script to rotate an image with a static URL to change every time you refresh the page. This is for a signature system btw.

<img src="http://domain.com/img1.jpg />

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So the file img1.jpg will have a new image associated with it. I do not want the HTML to change at all, just that the actuall file is governed by a Php script.

I heard somewhere there is a way to have the the image file a .php file... is there a way to do this?

 

make a folder named img1.jpg
place images in it

put an index.php file in it:

<?php
$pictures = array("picture.jpg","picture2.jpg","picture3.jpg");
header("Content-type: image/jpg");
echo file_get_contents($pictures[rand(0,(count($pictures)-1))]);
?>

there

 

a simple php script for your code
<img src="http://yourdomain.com/images/rotate<?php echo(rand(1,5)); ?>.jpg" />

make sure, you have file with named:
rotate1.jpg
rotate2.jpg
rotate3.jpg
rotate4.jpg
rotate5.jpg

I think you'll get the idea

 

He said he wanted an image with a static url to rotate

 

There's a lot of ways to do it.
What your ideal way of managing which images are used in the rotation is a big factor in which one would be best for you.

I would try to get Apache & mod_rewrite to do as much of the leg work as possible, but that might just be me.
For instance if I had 10 images in a "signatures" folder I might use something like this in my htaccess to rewrite requests to "sig.jpg" to one of the 10 sigs named "0.jpg" through "9.jpg" using a 302 Temporary redirect so the browser will keep checking and getting redirected.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{TIME_SEC} ([1-9])$
RewriteRule sig\.jpg$ signatures/%1.jpg [R=302,L]

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