[beetldude]

I created a website and I have an index.html; and in there, I have it linking to a rotate.php file which randomly generates a new image from a directory every time you refresh the page. However, if you right click and try to find the image properties, it shows the rotate.php file instead of the image URL. You can see what I am talking about at http://www.boneyourmother.com but be warned, the image it pops out at you may not be work safe!!

What I would really like to do, is make it so that others can send the link of the image to whomever they wish... but I would like each image to have its own page. So if someone sent www.boneyourmother.com/random/free_cat_sign.jpg to a friend, they would see something like the front page instead of just the image itself.

It's kind of hard for me to explain, so if you have any questions that I can answer that may help you understand better, feel free.

Thanks guys.

P.S.. Sorry about the topic, I forgot to change it before posting.

[Anthony:-P]

Hi There,

Would love to help, however with your warning up there i don't dare open it in college...don't want to risk my account.

Just a quick question though to use the PHP file are you using include(); require(); or simply using an image tag....?

Regards,
A...

[beetldude]

Well, the site was coded a long time ago using an include, but that doesn't seem to work for me anymore (it would print about a page of random letters instead of the image) so I switched to an image tag. I believe we still had that same problem when it was an include anyway. The old rotate.php was coded so that if you click on the image, it will go directly to the image so you could copy the link directly. That rotate.php is lost though.

[Anthony:-P]

Hi there,

Any chance you can post some code at all?

Regards,
A....

[Anthony:-P]

Hello again,

Just had an idea, it's pretty simple.

If you name your images 1.png 2.png and so on

then put this in the include:

PHP Code:

<?php
$i = rand(MIN,MAX);

echo "<img src='/images/$i.png' alt='Some alternate text' />";

?>

NB: You'll need to change MIN to the lowest numbered image and MAX to the highest numbered image.


It's not a masterpiece but it's something simple that you'd be able to use.

If you want them to link to the image then you could use:

PHP Code:

<?php
$i = rand(0,5);

echo "<a href='www.domain.tld/images/$i.png' target='_blank'><img src='/images/$i.png' alt='some alternate text' /></a>";

?>

Hope that helps some,

Regards,
Anthony