Image and Text Rotation Tutorial contributed by Maddy.

Many people have these to randomize things in their site and if you belong to their group here is the perfect script for that.

Firstly, have all the requirements for PHP, then create 1 Text file and name it as quotes.txt and enter all the relevant information. If you want Text , just type in all the stuff you need. Take care that each proverb/quote/thought/idea/ad/imgsrc should be in a separate line. Well, i’m going for images and this is how my quotes.txt file looks ^^

  |<img src="http://..../someimage.jpg" border="0" alt="Link US">|
  |<img src="http://..../someimage.jpg" border="0" alt="Link US">|
  |<img src="http://..../someimage.jpg" border="0" alt="Link US">|
  |<img src="http://..../someimage.jpg" border="0" alt="Link US">|
  |<img src="http://..../someimage.jpg" border="0" alt="Link US">|
  |<img src="http://..../someimage.jpg" border="0" alt="Link US">|

Now to make it work, Put this code in your header file. I’ll explain what they mean in a minute, but first the important instructions. Please place the quotes.txt in the same directory as header.txt , or you should enter the entire path like this ‘c:\domains\yourname\..\quotes.txt’ . I hope you understood ^_^

  <?php 

  $quotes_array=file('quotes.txt'); 

  $quote=$quotes_array[rand(0,count($quotes_array)-1)];

  echo $quote;

  ?>

The first command takes all the contents of the file and makes it into an array.

$quote does the randomizing. The function ‘count’ counts the number of lines in the array and lessens it by 1 and gives the arguments to the rand function.The function ‘rand’ generates a random value. For example: If you want a random number between 5 and 15 , u can use rand(5,15), now ours could be like rand(0,5)

Finally, we echo out the line. It’s as simple as that.

If it’s text, it gets displayed out as you want, you could have echo "<b><u>$quote</u></b>"; , if it’s an image the above code will do. Hope it was of some help. Thank you!!!

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