A simple PHP script for rotatin(random) banner with url

[spamofon]

anyone has anything like that

just want to rotate different banners on page, anyone have any simple php script to do that?

thanks

[Vell]

phpadsnew - not 'simple' but the best there is

[Yug]

Originally Posted by Vell

phpadsnew - not 'simple' but the best there is

[spamofon]

Originally Posted by Vell

phpadsnew - not 'simple' but the best there is

where can i get that?

[spamofon]

does that mean google it?

[azguy]

Just create an array with the links and their banner filename, shuffle it, and use the first item.

[MrIzzz]

i'm in the process of installing phpadsnew now and it fucking rocks. amazing features in there but it takes alot of tinkering

[HowlingWulf]

Your subject says random, which is easier than incremental rotate, so here you go.

<?php
$ban = array();
array_push($ban,"HTML CODE1");
array_push($ban,"HTML CODE2");
array_push($ban,"HTML CODE3");
srand ((double)microtime()*1000000);
$randomnum = rand(0, count($ban)-1);
echo $ban[$randomnum];
?>

[eadweb]

I create a files called banner1.php, banner2.php... etc. 1 for each banner spot and then call them with a php include statment.

<?php

srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
switch (rand (1,5)) {

case 1: ?>

<a href=http://www.YourSponsor.com/ target=_blank>
<img src=/banners/YourBanner.gif width=468 height=80 border=0 alt="Click Here!"></a>

<? break;
case 2: ?>

<a href="http://www.YourSponsor.com/" target="_blank">
<img src="/banners/YourBanner.gif" width=468 height=60 border=0 alt="Click Here!"><br>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="3">Visit The Webs Largest Sex Personals Site... Join For Free!</font></a>

<? break;
case 3: ?>

<a href=http://www.YourSponsor.com/ target=_blank>
<img src=/banners/YourBanner.gif width=468 height=80 border=0 alt="Click Here!"></a>

<? break;
case 4: ?>

<a href="http://www.YourSponsor.com/" target="_blank">
<img src="/banners/YourBanner.gif" width=468 height=60 border=0 alt="Click Here!"><br>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="3">Visit The Webs Largest Sex Personals Site... Join For Free!</font></a>

<? break;
case 5: ?>

<a href="http://www.YourSponsor.com/" target="_blank">
<img src="/banners/YourBanner.gif" width=468 height=60 border=0 alt="Click Here!"><br>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="3">Visit The Webs Largest Sex Personals Site... Join For Free!</font></a>

<? break; } ?>

[Lycanthrope]

banners.php (include this)

<?
$delim = "\n";
$cryfile = "banners.txt";
$fp = fopen($cryfile, "r");
$contents = fread($fp, filesize($cryfile));
$cry_arr = explode($delim,$contents);
fclose($fp);
srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$cry_index = (rand(1, sizeof($cry_arr)) - 1);
$herecry = $cry_arr[$cry_index];
echo $herecry;
?>

banners.txt
<a href="url1.com"><img border="0" src="image1.gif"></a>
<a href="url2.com"><img border="0" src="image2.gif"></a>
<a href="url3.com"><img border="0" src="image3.gif"></a>
more here 1 per line

[rickholio]

Yikes... there's some helluva inefficient ways being proferred here. Just goes to show that there's 100 ways to do something on a computer I suppose.

Here's an alternative that allows you to attach a separate banner with a URL, simple maintenance by adjusting array elements. Easily adapted to keeping image/URL pairs in a database.

<?
// Change the banner/URL mappings as you so desire.
$b = array(
  'banner1.jpg' => 'http://target.url1',
  'banner2.jpg' => 'http://target.url2',
  'banner3.jpg' => 'http://target.url3'
);

// If you'd rather use mysql:
// $q = mysql_query("select img, url from whatever_table order by rand() limit 1");
// $r = mysql_fetch_assoc($q);
// $img = $r[img]; $url = $r[url];

$img = array_rand($b);  // The easy way to pull a random element from an array ;)
$url = $b[$img];
print "<A HREF='$url'><IMG SRC='$img' BORDER=0></A>";
?>

HTH. HAND.

[Doc911]

I can write that script with a simple admin panel to add or remove the banners for 20 bucks icq me at 161480555