Refreshing Images
This might not be the right spot - but I will put this here anyway. I have a client who wants a different image to appear on his home page each time you come to it. The first time you visit it's image 1, the second time it's image 2, the third time it's image 3, and then the fourth time it repeats the cycle and you see image 1 again.
Make sense? How do I do this?
Thanks everyone.
Brooke
detox posted this at 01:21 — 15th May 2001.
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you can do this a couple of ways, is the site simply a static html site? or is it asp etc?
Brooke posted this at 20:33 — 15th May 2001.
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Sorry it has taken me so long to reply...it's a static html site.
Brooke
Suzanne posted this at 20:48 — 15th May 2001.
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You could set a cookie in JavaScript to ensure that if person A sees image 1 today, he sees image 2 tomorrow.
But it would be easier to use a random script in either JavaScript or CGI (probably JavaScript) that instead of doing it in order, would simply pick one of four and show that and pick one of four on refresh and show that.
Brooke posted this at 22:41 — 15th May 2001.
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So I want to do a random script in javascript - how do I do that?
Brooke
Suzanne posted this at 06:20 — 16th May 2001.
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For the short answer, you might want to search for free JavaScripts that do just that.
If you want to write it yourself, you will want to create an array of images. Then you would write a small script that randomly chooses one of the images. Then you would write another small script that would write the image into place...
document.write('
Brooke posted this at 14:55 — 16th May 2001.
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I went to: http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/
And downloaded the random image scripts. Do you think that will be good for what I am looking for?
TIA!
Brooke
Suzanne posted this at 20:37 — 16th May 2001.
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It's a CGI script.
You will have to make sure that this will work on your server.
Suzanne
Brooke posted this at 14:22 — 17th May 2001.
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Thanks you guys. I will give this a try and let you know how it goes.
Brooke
Brooke posted this at 22:24 — 18th May 2001.
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Okay - you can see this at cataluna.com/clients/sallberg
The rotating images are supposed to be on the right in that big empty space. But as you can see they are not working. Any ideas? Can you see anything that I might be doing wrong?
Brooke
Suzanne posted this at 01:18 — 20th May 2001.
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I'm pretty sure you haven't read the instructions properly, since "http://www..ser.ver/cgi-bin/rand_image.pl" isn't a valid url.
www..ser.ver should be your server url. In this case www.cataluna.com.
Read the readme.txt file VERY CAREFULLY and make all the changes properly and you should be fine!
Brooke posted this at 16:18 — 20th May 2001.
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At first I did have the ser.ver as cataluna.com - but it didn't work so I tried that too. I have it back now and it still isn't working.
Any ideas...
Brooke
PS - I already contacted the creator of the script and I have not heard back yet.
Suzanne posted this at 20:44 — 20th May 2001.
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Did you upload the CGI script in ASCII mode?
Did you CHMOD the CGI script properly?
Are all the images in the right location? Are they listed properly in the script?
You *must* have the correct URL in the IMG SRC attribute. So make sure that it's _not_ www.ser.ver.
S
Brooke posted this at 18:53 — 23rd May 2001.
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Well I wanted to thank all of you for taking the time to respond to my question. I didn't have any luck so I went another route. I have dreamweaver ultra dev 4.0 so I just installed a random image extension. That worked great! You can see it at cataluna.com/clients/sallberg
Thanks everyone!
Brooke
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