Need random image loader

**ilovesd90macs** · 02-05-2007, 03:32 AM

Hi, I know I have seen this script somewhere here before, but I can't find it. The script I need is a script that randomly selects an image from a certain folder and diplays it. Each time you refresh, a different picture is displayed, but until you refresh it stays the same. Thanks for any help.

**thetestingsite** · 02-05-2007, 03:35 AM

Was it a client side script (javascript) or server-side (PHP,ASP,etc.) I could probably write something up in PHP, but it may take a little while (about 20 or so minutes to write, and test).

**ilovesd90macs** · 02-05-2007, 04:34 AM

I don't know what it was, whichever works best. It was something you added into the .html file, so it is probably client side.

**ilovesd90macs** · 02-05-2007, 04:58 AM

I have found a website with something similar to what I want. The website www.railcarphotos.com has a random feature that will show you ten random train car photos, and each time you refresh, the ones displayed change. http://www.railcarphotos.com/Search....&Search=Search

The only thing is, all I want to use this for is to have my websites banner change every time that someone visits the page.

I think what the person who asked the first time I saw this a while back was trying to do was to randomly generate adds, so that a different ad was displayed each time, so the ad wasn't the same every time.

**ilovesd90macs** · 02-05-2007, 05:24 AM

Found a better example, http://www.pwrs.ca/ The main image changes on refresh.

**Twey** · 02-05-2007, 05:48 AM

Code:

  <script type="text/javascript">
    window.onload = function() {
      var randomImages = [
        "folder1/image1.png",
        "folder2/image2.jpg",
        "folder2/image3.gif",
        "folder3/image4.tga"
      ];
      document.images['random_image'].src = randomImages[Math.floor(Math.random() * randomImages.length)];
    };
  </script>
</head>
<body>
  <img id="random_image" src="defaultImage.png">

I had to answer this purely because it's 0547, my vision's getting a little blurry, and I read the "random" in the title as "condom."