Looking for a rotation script

I want it to be able to rotate between 3-5 images with a text description.

Ideally just something basic like xml or text file as for the time being it doesnt need to be mysql.

Cheers

 

Have you looked at PHP using random() to pick 1-X and then switch to load the random pick?

No mysql involved. Just 3-4 lines of code per pick.

 

Try this and do some customisation

 

Thats a nice simple script, I have 2 questions, how do i customise it to add the comment and is there a way to ensure the picture only displays at a certain size?

 

To add the comment, (slightly modified from the original)

// array of images
$image_db = array(
1 => 'link_to_picture_1',
'link_to_picture_2',
'link_to_picture_3',
'link_to_picture_4',
'link_to_picture_5',
);

// array of comments
$comment_db = array(
1 => 'COMMENT_FOR_IMAGE_1',
'COMMENT_FOR_IMAGE_2',
'COMMENT_FOR_IMAGE_3',
'COMMENT_FOR_IMAGE_4',
'COMMENT_FOR_IMAGE_5',
);

// generate a random number
$rand = rand(1,count($image_db));
 
// finally, print image
print '<img src="' . $image_db[$rand] . '" />';
// print comment below it
print '<br />'.$comment_db[$rand];

PHP:

Regarding this

what you mean was limiting the size of the image?

 

The height and width i want to be a maximum of about 150-200px

 

$height_width_limit = '200';

// array of images
$image_db = array(
1 => 'link_to_picture_1',
'link_to_picture_2',
'link_to_picture_3',
'link_to_picture_4',
'link_to_picture_5',
);

// array of comments
$comment_db = array(
1 => 'COMMENT_FOR_IMAGE_1',
'COMMENT_FOR_IMAGE_2',
'COMMENT_FOR_IMAGE_3',
'COMMENT_FOR_IMAGE_4',
'COMMENT_FOR_IMAGE_5',
);

// generate a random number
$rand = rand(1,count($image_db));
 
// finally, print image
print '<img src="' . $image_db[$rand] . '" ';

$img_size = getimagesize($image_db[$rand]);
if ($img_size[0] > $height_width_limit || $img_size[1] > $height_width_limit) {
// either width or height is bigger than $height_width_limit set above

// let the browser do proportional resizing itself
if ($img_size[0] > $img_size[1]) { // width > height , limit the size using width
print 'width="'.$height_width_limit.'px" ';
}
elseif ($img_size[1] >= $img_size[0]) { // height > width , limit the size using height
print 'height="'.$height_width_limit.'px" ';
}

}

// close img tag
print '/>';

// print comment below it
print '<br />'.$comment_db[$rand];

PHP:

Anyway, whats the shape of the image? square? rectangle? its width greater than height or?

 

just photographs, so rectangle.

That script is prety good.

Thank you