Simple and Effective Rotator

Ok so I spent like 3 hours looking for an uber simple effective php rotating script... and really couldn't find any!

What I needed was something that could rotate html randomly while being very small file wise.

So i'll share it here.

<?
$banners = split("<!-- SPLIT -->", preg_replace("/<\?.*?\?>/", "", file_get_contents("/complete route to directory/rotatelist.txt")));

echo $banners[rand(0,sizeof($banners) - 1)];
?>

PHP:

First you put the above in your index.php file or whatever...
Then you create a rotatelist.txt file and include what ever info you need to be rotated (banners, img's, html).
Just put a hard return and <!-- SPLIT --> in between whatever you want rotated.

Again super simple and useful. and make sure to put the filepath from your root into the rotatelist.txt.

 

Thanks alot Good one

 

You could always just delimit each with a new line, then explode( "\r\n", $file_contents)
(Important note: "\r\n" must be wrapped in " not ', otherwise the linebreak won't be considered a linebreak, just those literal charchters)

Shaves a few bytes of your banners.txt too.

 

I tried this and for me it simply rotates a text display of the file names I list in the text file rather than incorporating their respective code into the html that the php generates.

Still useful for this purpose, but how do I get the file contents to be rotated?

 

you have to put the actual code into the file... not the filenames then use the <!-- SPLIT --> and a hard return each time you want new stuff