Random photo into forum...

tspore

Here is a question.
I was thinking of adding a few random photos into my header:



I originally was thinking of just using a random image php script. But I began thinking, and I am leaning towards wondering if there are any PHP scripts which will work to grab a thumb at random.

Any suggestions?

Allen

tspore wrote:

Here is a question.
I was thinking of adding a few random photos into my header:



I originally was thinking of just using a random image php script. But I began thinking, and I am leaning towards wondering if there are any PHP scripts which will work to grab a thumb at random.

Any suggestions?

This will pull a random photo from a gallery. Set your header html to pull five
thumbs from different galleries.

<img src="/photos/random.mg?AlbumID=xxxxxxx&Size=Th" />

tspore

Allen wrote:

This will pull a random photo from a gallery. Set your header html to pull five
thumbs from different galleries.

<img src="/photos/random.mg?AlbumID=xxxxxxx&Size=Th" />

Thanks for the quick reply but I am missing something. It must be because its Sunday.
Hum....
For example I want to use this gallery:
http://43photo.smugmug.com/gallery/2936955

but when I plug it into the header I only get a ?
I have a API for the home page -
http://www.fourthirdsphoto.com
So I am unsure what is up.

Allen

tspore wrote:

Thanks for the quick reply but I am missing something. It must be because its Sunday.
Hum....
For example I want to use this gallery:
http://43photo.smugmug.com/gallery/2936955

but when I plug it into the header I only get a ?
I have a API for the home page -
http://www.fourthirdsphoto.com
So I am unsure what is up.

Just for grins I just stuck this in at the top of your html and got five thumbs
across. Every page refresh they change. Playing with Firefox WebDev.

<div id="headerPics"><img src="/photos/random.mg?AlbumID=2936955&Size=100x100" /> <img src="/photos/random.mg?AlbumID=3082886&Size=100x100" /> <img src="/photos/random.mg?AlbumID=2857176&Size=100x100" /> <img src="/photos/random.mg?AlbumID=2769575&Size=100x100" /> <img src="/photos/random.mg?AlbumID=2653339&Size=100x100" /></div>


Add to your CSS

#headerPics {
position:relative;
margin: 0 auto;
left: 290px;
top: 35px;
}

#Table_01 {margin-top: -70px;}

Allen

Screen shot.

tspore

Allen wrote:

Screen shot.

Thanks I found my error.

brandofamily

Allen wrote:

Screen shot.

kewl kode Allen... I jst can not figure out a neat way to use it... yet...

dlscott56

Thanks Allen, that's really cool!

FormerLurker

How "random" is random?
When I use this link to pull five photos from the same gallery into a sample header, I get five of the same photos. This leads me to believe that the random number generator, or whatever drives the selector, runs once per page load. Is that right? Does that mean that to get five random images I can't pull five times from the same gallery but must instead pull from five different galleries? Thanks.

Allen

FormerLurker wrote:

When I use this link to pull five photos from the same gallery into a sample header, I get five of the same photos. This leads me to believe that the random number generator, or whatever drives the selector, runs once per page load. Is that right? Does that mean that to get five random images I can't pull five times from the same gallery but must instead pull from five different galleries? Thanks.

Each page refresh gets another set of thumbs.

Hehe, just like a one-armed bandit, right?:D