Sorry on the long delay between posts.\u00a0 Been very busy at work, and sometimes haven’t had the brain energy to do even MORE web stuff in the off-hours.\u00a0 But I’m definitely due so the next item is an easy one to work my way back into postings:\u00a0 an easy to use random script.<\/p>\n
Now I’ve seen many out there that claim to be simple, and then you start adding in files and iframes and that somehow doesn’t seem very simple in application.\u00a0 So after trying a few things (a random link list for my home page, and a random image selector as well for the home page), here is what I settled on.<\/p>\n
The Random Link script I use is one that I had actually found for use on another site.\u00a0 It’s original purpose was to display random banners (with links) on a web page.\u00a0 It worked very well and was very easy to adapt.\u00a0 That was a few years ago.\u00a0 I revisited the script while looking for others and realized it could be adapted easily to just display random links… or probably anything else.<\/p>\n
Here is the original code:
\n<?php<\/p>\n
\/\/You will have to change the ban1, ban2, and ban3\u00a0 variables.\u00a0 You can change these links to point at the images you want displayed.
\n\/\/You will have to change the url1, url2, and url3\u00a0 variables.\u00a0 You want these to be urls of the pages you want to link to.
\n$ban1 = “http:\/\/xxx.org\/images\/ads\/banner.gif”;
\n$url1 = “http:\/\/www.xxx.org”;
\n$ban2 = “http:\/\/yyy.org\/images\/ads\/banner.jpg”;
\n$url2 = “http:\/\/www.yyy.org”;
\n$ban3 = “http:\/\/zzz.org\/images\/ads\/banner.gif”;
\n$url3 = “http:\/\/www.zzz.org”;
\n$target = “_blank”;<\/p>\n
\/\/Random number between 1 and number of banners.
\n$randomNum = rand (1,3);<\/p>\n
\/\/Select the banner of the random number
\n$image = ${‘ban’.$randomNum};<\/p>\n
\/\/Url of the random number
\n$url= ${‘url’.$randomNum};<\/p>\n
\/\/Prints out the link of the banner and the image of the banner
\nPrint “<a href=”.$url.” mce_href=”.$url.” target=”.$target.”><img src=”.$image.” border=0><\/a>”;
\n?><\/p>\n
Pretty straightforward, huh?\u00a0 So I took it and decided to use it just for random links:
\n<?php<\/p>\n
$url1 = “http:\/\/www.google.com”;
\n$url2 = “http:\/\/www.yahoo.com”;
\n$url3 = “http:\/\/www.yocisco.com”;
\n$url4 = “http:\/\/www.rafaelnadal.com”;
\n$url5 = “http:\/\/www.wimbledon.org”;
\n$url6 = “http:\/\/www.odcdance.org”;
\n$url7 = “http:\/\/www.cuil.com”;
\n$url8 = “http:\/\/www.youtube.com”;
\n$url9 = “http:\/\/www.vrestaurant.com”;
\n$url10 = “http:\/\/www.atptennis.com”;
\n$url11 = “http:\/\/www.wheresgeorge.com”;
\n$url12 = “http:\/\/www.laughingsquid.net”;
\n$url13 = “http:\/\/www.blogger.com”;
\n$url14 = “http:\/\/www.meebo.com”;
\n$url15 = “http:\/\/www.usopen.org”;
\n$url16 = “http:\/\/www.campstella.org”;
\n$url17 = “http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2keyIEof038”;
\n$target = “_blank”;<\/p>\n
\/\/Random number between 1 and number of banners.
\n$randomNum = rand (1,17);<\/p>\n
\/\/Select the banner of the random number
\n\/\/$text = ${‘ban’.$randomNum};<\/p>\n
\/\/Url of the random number
\n$url= ${‘url’.$randomNum};<\/p>\n
\/\/TEST TEXT
\n$static1= “Random Link “;<\/p>\n
\/\/TEST TEXT
\n$static2= “… Give it a shot!”;<\/p>\n
\/\/Prints out the link of the banner and the image of the banner
\nPrint “<a href=”.$url.” mce_href=”.$url.” target=”.$target.”><span>”.$static1.”<\/span><span><em>”.$static2.”<\/em><\/span><\/a>”;
\n?><\/p>\n
Isn’t simplicity a wonderful thing????? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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