Top graphic continually changes - who do they do it?

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At http://www.overloaded.com/ the top graphic changes when you go to a
new page or refresh the page.
How do they do it?
Is there a plugin for Dreamweaver to do this?
thanks

 

[William Tasso]

the top graphic changes when you go to a
new page or refresh the page.
How do they do it?

there are any number of algos to pick one from a list of items - ask them?

Is there a plugin for Dreamweaver to do this?

no idea

 

[brucie]

At http://www.overloaded.com/ the top graphic changes when you go to a
new page or refresh the page.
How do they do it?
http://usenet.alt-html.org/random-image.html
http://usenet.alt-html.org/random-image.phps

Is there a plugin for Dreamweaver to do this?

why would you need a plugin for something so simple? sorry silly
question, you did after all pay a small fortune for a poor quality
text editor.

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

At http://www.overloaded.com/ the top graphic changes when you go to a
new page or refresh the page.
How do they do it?
Is there a plugin for Dreamweaver to do this?
thanks

Simple. Two ways I can think of:
store all the images in a database and pick one at random

use some server-side scripting to scan a directory of images,
load them into an array and pick one at random. I do that here:
http://new.hyweljenkins.co.uk/

 

[David Graham]

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http://usenet.alt-html.org/random-image.html
http://usenet.alt-html.org/random-image.phps

Hi
To get your example to work on my site hosted by phpwebhosting, I take the
php from the second link and rename the file with a .php extension. This
works OK - see http://p0c79.phpwebhosting.com/~p0c79/random-image2.php

But you manage to get this to work from a page with a .html extension - how?

How does the server know it has to process php instructions if the file does
not have a .php extension. Obviously this is possible because you do this
with your example, but once again, how?

thanks
david

 

[brucie]

To get your example to work on my site hosted by phpwebhosting, I take the
php from the second link and rename the file with a .php extension. This
works OK - see http://p0c79.phpwebhosting.com/~p0c79/random-image2.php

But you manage to get this to work from a page with a .html extension - how?

i cant tell you its a big secret.

How does the server know it has to process php instructions if the file does
not have a .php extension.
magic!

Obviously this is possible because you do this with your example, but once
again, how?

oh all right, twist my arm

in a .htaccess file:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

 

[Toby A Inkster]

But you manage to get this to work from a page with a .html extension - how?

How does the server know it has to process php instructions if the file does
not have a .php extension. Obviously this is possible because you do this
with your example, but once again, how?

In an .htacccess file:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

This says 'all files with the extension .html are PHP files'. Of course,
the better thing to do is in your .htaccess file:

Options +MultiViews

This means that you don't need to link to 'http://example.org/myfile.php'
or 'http://example.org/myfile.html', you can just link to
'http://example.org/myfile' which is better because in the future you can
replace it with a Perl file, a JSP file or a PDF file -- whichever takes
your fancy.