Hey !

Can anyone recommend a good utility that helps display random images/quickTime clips every time the page gets loaded ?

Thanks for your help

Ive created two scripts for you, one displays gifs, jpegs etc and one displays quicktime movies for you, if you like i can create a hybrid of both but you can simply as for that in this topic if youd like it

ok, heres the normal GIF, JPEG, PNG script

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
	yourImageList = new Array("image1.gif" , "image2.jpg" , "image3.gif" , "helloworld.jpg");
	num = (Math.floor(Math.random()*(yourImageList.length)));
	document.write("<img src=\"" + yourImageList[num] + "\" alt=\"Random Image\" />");
</script>

and heres the quicktime one

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
	yourQTMovieList = new Array("Movie1.mov" , "Movie2.mov");
	num = (Math.floor(Math.random()*(yourQTMovieList.length)));
	widthOfMovie = 100;
	heightOfMovie = 100;
	
	document.write("<OBJECT CLASSID='clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B' WIDTH='" + heightOfMovie + "' HEIGHT='" + widthOfMovie + "' CODEBASE='http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab#version=6,0,2,0'><PARAM NAME='controller' VALUE='TRUE'><PARAM NAME='type' VALUE='video/quicktime'><PARAM NAME='autoplay' VALUE='true'><PARAM NAME='target' VALUE='myself'><PARAM NAME='src' VALUE='" + yourQTMovieList[num] + "'><PARAM NAME='pluginspage' VALUE='http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/indext.html'>			<EMBED WIDTH='" + widthOfMovie + "' HEIGHT='" + heightOfMovie + "' CONTROLLER='TRUE' TARGET='myself' SRC='" + yourQTMovieList[num] + "' type='video/quicktime' BGCOLOR='#000000' BORDER='0' PLUGINSPAGE='http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/indext.html'></EMBED></OBJECT>");
</script>

like i said i can create you a hybrid of both if you would like, i can also make it into a php version if youd like

To Expand on this topic, can you show me how to do this using php? Another words what I want to achieve is a random product with description, price, link to details page & price from mysql database to show up on a page...Similar to how http://www.christmasdepot.com has their featured product box.

Thank you!
-Brian

which version did u want, the image one , quicktime or both?

the image version

no probs itll take a few mins

this should do the trick

PHP Code:

<?php
    $yourImageList = Array("image1.gif" , "image2.jpg" , "image3.gif" , "helloworld.jpg");
    $num = mt_rand(0,count($yourImageList)-1)  ;
    echo $num;
    echo "<img src=\"" + $yourImageList[$num] + "\" alt=\"Random Image\" />";
?>

Yeah, but how about if the images are stored in MySQL Database? Basically, I want to have a 'featured product' table on my homepage with a random image that's stored in my SQL database, along with some other random information from the database like the title, description, price, etc..

Thank you in advance!

-Brian