random URL

[andr.in]

ok workin' on a footer! I think I'm gonna just put pics! No flash!
But I want it to load a random URL! Like a random pic chosen from various pics! how? please~pretty please! =)

[liam]

you could do something like the following:

place this in the head section of your page:


<SCRIPT language="javascript">
function RandomURL(text,urls)
{
RandomURLLong(text,urls,"");
}

function RandomURLLong(text,urls,hparams)
{
/* si: start index
** i: current index
** ei: end index
** cc: current count
*/
si = 0;
ci=0;
cc=0;
urlSet = new Array();
ei = urls.length;
for (i=1;i<ei;i++) {
if (urls.charAt(i) == ' ' || urls.charAt(i) == ',') {
urlSet[cc] = urls.substring(si,i);
cc++;
si=i+1;
}
}
ind = Math.floor(Math.random() *cc);
document.writeln("<a "+hparams +" href=\""+urlSet[ind]+"\">"+text+"</a>");
}
</SCRIPT>

then, place the following where you'd like to add the random link:


<SCRIPT>
RandomURL("<h3>Click here for a random URL</h3>","http://www.vmkdsn.com/","http://www.imark-media.com","http://www.kirupaforum.com","http://www.thefirmdesign.com/",");
</SCRIPT>

Simply change the URL's i've used to ones that you want and voila, it should work. On each page refresh, the link will take you to a different site.

[lostinbeta]

Originally posted by Syko
ok workin' on a footer! I think I'm gonna just put pics! No flash!
But I want it to load a random URL! Like a random pic chosen from various pics! how? please~pretty please! =)

You can't use Javascript in your footer. It doesn't work.

You can however dynamically load .jpgs into Flash (as long as they are a good file size).

To do that would be easy, just store the image names in an array, then pic from that array randomly and load it in.

[liam]

oh yeah... forgot... well anyways that code should still work if you wanna do it on a webpage...

[lostinbeta]

Actually for random image displaying, you could do the same. Just choose an image file name randomly from an array. The code would be much shorter and easier :-\

[andr.in]

oh yeah! Why didn't I think of flash?=)

[lostinbeta]

:) Its pretty much your only choice for randomness in your footer. Jubbas footer uses the same method, he randomly loads in 3 different images.