Topic awaiting preservation: Random Img and Text

does anyone know a script which randomly selects an img and also displays text according to the picture. like for example the script randomly selects a picture of a flower and also according to the picture displays text. i know how to make the random img script its the text thingy that confusing me

darknosis: The simplest thing would be to have an array with the image and the text in it. I have the code here to do it in PHP but you haven't specified what language you want this in.

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Something like:

$images = array(

'House' =>

               array('url' => 'house.jpg',

                          'description' => 'A picture of my house'),

'Hat' =>

              array('url' => 'hat3.jpg',

                         'description' => 'A picture of my hat')

);



  srand ((float)microtime()*1000000);

  shuffle ($images);

  // for some reason once doesn't seem to do the job so we go again

  srand ((float)microtime()*1000000);

  shuffle ($images);



  $random_image_link = $images[1][url];

  $random_image_description = $images[1][description];



  echo "<img src=\"/image_folder/" . $random_image_link  . "\" />";

  echo "<p>" . $random_image_description  . "</p>";

There are probably problems in there but it is a start.


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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

any language will do, the thing is each img has several lines of text and a few links

darknosis: Any? Well that will do then

There is nothing to stop you having HTML in the array or you could add other elements into your array for the extra information.

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Check out this one:
http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum12/HTML/001342.html

This was back when we helped master suho do something similar...that's if you want the text as part of the image...if not the esteemed Emperor's example is the way to go.

hell, you could even keep this stuff as seperate files and read them into the page..

e.g.

/house.jpg
/house.caption
/hat3.jpg
/hat3.caption

excetera....


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Yeah...or you could do it that way

That's how I do it for my wife's artwork .. I have 3 directories .. thumbs, images and descriptions, each containing files with the same names, (but different extensions) ... then I use PHP to read the contents of the thumbs directory and store the root-filenames in an array. From there on it's pretty simple to display them and when someone clicks on a thumbnail, to display the equivalent image and text in the boxes on the page ...


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[This message has been edited by trib (edited 07-28-2003).]