[support] How to show random image files in webpage

[Idan Arbel]

Hello,

why not create a view of random nodes. create a block display for the view
and place it in a region at the top of your page?

Idan

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Austin Einter <austin.einter at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All
> I would like to show image files (in a random manner) at the top of
> webpage.
> I want to have a folder that contains all the image files.
>
> Then I want to have a separate php file (say rotate.php) having logic of
> selecting the random image file.
> And want to include that rotate.php file from page.tpl.php.
>
> To start with, I followed the marinelli view.
> Used the images and rotate.php (\marinelli\img\banners\rotate.php).
>
> Copied to image files and rotate.php to path where my page.tpl.php is
> present.
>
> In page.tpl.php, I added the line  include ("rotate.php");
>
> The rotate.php looks as below. On debugging looks *preg_match *line it
> breaks.
> Please let me know why line "if ( preg_match( $regex, $file ) ) {" breaks.
>
> Regards
> Austin
>
> *<?php*
>
> */***
>
> ** randomly select an image from the current directory and return it*
>
> ***
>
> ** @todo - consider accepting a local path as $_GET['img'] for overrides*
>
> ** to remain compatible with Marinelli's rotate.php*
>
> ** *
>
> ** (but why? why possible use case is there for linking to *
>
> ** rotate.php?img=file.gif instead of straight to file.gif?)*
>
> **/*
>
> *$file_types = array( *
>
> *'gif' => 'image/gif',*
>
> *'jpg' => 'image/jpeg',*
>
> *'jpeg' => 'image/jpeg',*
>
> *'png' => 'image/png'*
>
> *) ;*
>
> *$regex = '/\.(' . implode('|',array_keys($file_types)) . ')$/i' ;*
>
> *$files = array() ;*
>
> *$directory = opendir(".");*
>
> *while ( FALSE !== ($file = readdir( $directory )) ) {*
>
> *if ( preg_match( $regex, $file ) ) {*
>
> *$files[] = $file ;*
>
> *}*
>
> *}*
>
> *if ( !empty( $files ) ) {*
>
> *$which = rand(0,sizeof($files)-1) ;*
>
> *if ( $file = file_get_contents( $files[$which] ) ) {*
>
> *$parts = explode('.',$files[$which]) ;*
>
> *$ext = strtolower($parts[sizeof($parts)-1]) ;*
>
> **
>
> *header( "Content-type: " . $file_types[$ext] ) ;*
>
> *header( "Expires: Wed, 29 Jan 1975 04:15:00 GMT" );*
>
> *header( "Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT" );*
>
> *header( "Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate" );*
>
> *header( "Pragma: no-cache" );*
>
> *print $file ;*
>
> **
>
> *}*
>
> *}*
>
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