serving up images
| From: | Matthew Horn | Date: | Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:04:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | serving up images | ||
| Groups: | php.db | ||
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I have about 25 or so images that I would like to serve up on my site's home page. I would like
the image to change every 3 days or so. Does anyone have a hint as to how I might go about doing
this in a simple fashion?
I don't want it to be random, but I do want it to cycle through the images and then start over
again.
Some initial thoughts:
I could just set up a custom index rather than a simple series (1,2,3...). I could then serve up the
image that matches the current day of the month or matches a day range. But this gets tricky because
I don't have exactly 31 images, and there are obviously shorter months. AND, I want to be able
to enter more images without breaking the code.
I could do it randomly, and also store an "exclusion list", so every three days, my page
gets a new random image whose index is not stored in this exclusion list. This seems like the most
likely approach, but sounds like extra work.
Any ideas? tnks
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Matthew J. Horn
Principal
Spielboy.com