Jumble Sponsor Images

[rymco]

I look after a website for a curling club and I'm always getting complaints from sponsors that their logo never makes it to the top viewable portion of the page (http://www.simcoecurlingclub.ca/sponsors.php).  I'm looking for a way to randomly mix up the images so that I'm not "favoring" any specific sponsor.  I'm definitely not a PHP savy user and basically just get by with my PHP skills.  I've found some samples of displaying a random image on a page but I need to show all images on the page but mix them up...

 

Can someone help me with some sample code?  The images are stored in a single folder (images\sponsors) and are named according to the sponsor (eg. \images\sponsors\mcdonalds.png)...

 

 

[aeroswat]

Maybe in your mysql statement use the following line

SELECT * from tblSponsors ORDER BY random();

[rymco]

No MySQL involved... the sponsors HTML is static.  Like I said, I don't know PHP well enough to do all the cool stuff.  I'm basically just using PHP for <? inlcude('myfile'); ?> so I can have a generic template for header, footer, link lists, etc. and build my pages that way.  Everything else is static HTML... it's served me well up to this point.

[aeroswat]

No MySQL involved... the sponsors HTML is static.  Like I said, I don't know PHP well enough to do all the cool stuff.  I'm basically just using PHP for <? inlcude('myfile'); ?> so I can have a generic template for header, footer, link lists, etc. and build my pages that way.  Everything else is static HTML... it's served me well up to this point.

 

I see... Well that makes things a little more difficult. I guess what you could do is put them in a php array and then do a while loop until the array is empty. Every time you select a random section of the array which stores url's to the images. Once it selects that it echo's the html to display an image + the array value. Then delete it out of the array. That'd probably be the easiest way I can think of. I'll try to write the code up real fast.

[aeroswat]

Try this

 

$sponsors[0] = "http://www.images.com/sponsor1.jpg";
$sponsors[1] = "http://www.images.com/sponsor2.jpg";
etc...
$count=0;
echo "<table><tr>";
while(count($sponsors) > 0) {
$count++;
$rand=rand(0,count($sponsors)-1);
if(($count % 3) == 0) {
	echo "</tr><tr>" . "<td><img src='" . $sponsors[$rand] . "'/></td>";
} else{
	echo "<td><img src='" . $sponsors[$rand] . "'/></td>";
}
unset($sponsors[$rand]);
}
echo "</tr></table>";

 

added table format

[rymco]

I figured it would involve an array... I just wasn't sure what the code would look like.  I'll work with your sample code and see what I can come up with.  Thanks!

[aeroswat]

I figured it would involve an array... I just wasn't sure what the code would look like.  I'll work with your sample code and see what I can come up with.  Thanks!

 

No problem. Good luck and if it doesn't work out post here and I'll try to help ya more.

[teamatomic]

$path = "./graphics/";

    $graphics = array();

 

    $dir_handle = @opendir($path) or die("Unable to open $path");

 

    while ($file = readdir($dir_handle)) {

      if($file == "." || $file == "..")

        continue;

        array_push($graphics,$file);

    }

 

closedir($dir_handle);

  shuffle($graphics);

 

foreach($graphics as $graphic)

{

echo "<img src=\"$path$graphic\">\n<br />";

}

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic

[rymco]

I've got the code in my page and the page is attempting to load but it freezes up and I have to kill my IE session... http://www.simcoecurlingclub.ca/sponsors_test.php

 

My finished code:

<?
	$sponsors[0]="images/sponsors/sponsor0.png";
	$sponsors[1]="images/sponsors/sponsor1.png";
	$sponsors[2]="images/sponsors/sponsor2.png";
	...
                                ...
	$sponsors[59]="images/sponsors/sponsor59.png";
	$sponsors[60]="images/sponsors/sponsor60.png";

	$count=0;
	echo "<table border='0' cellpadding='2' cellspacing='4' width='100%'><tr>";
	while(count($sponsors) > 0) {
		$count++;
		$rand=rand(0,count($sponsors)-1);
		if(($count % 3) == 0) {
			echo "</tr><tr>" . "<td class='sponsor'><img src='" . $sponsors[$rand] . "'/></td>";
		} else {
			echo "<td class='sponsor'><img src='" . $sponsors[$rand] . "'/></td>";
		}
		unset($sponsors[$rand]);
	}
	echo "</tr></table>";
  ?>

 

 

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for the additional code teamatomic but I'll be fine with the array method because I'll be adding a url array once I get this working...

[aeroswat]

It could be an infinite loop. Trying replacing the > 0 in the while loop to > 1... although that won't make much sense see if it works.

[rajivgonsalves]

extending on what aeroswat did you can simply do this

 

<?php
      $sponsors[0]="images/sponsors/sponsor0.png";
      $sponsors[1]="images/sponsors/sponsor1.png";
      $sponsors[2]="images/sponsors/sponsor2.png";
      $sponsors[3]="images/sponsors/sponsor3.png";
      shuffle($sponsors);
               
      echo "<table border='0' cellpadding='2' cellspacing='4' width='100%'><tr>";
    $count = 0;
    foreach ($sponsors as $sponsor) {
         if(($count % 3) == 0) {
            echo "</tr><tr>" . "<td class='sponsor'><img src='" . $sponsor . "'/></td>";
         } else {
            echo "<td class='sponsor'><img src='" . $sponsor . "'/></td>";
         }
         $count++;
      }
      echo "</tr></table>";
     ?>

[rymco]

That works pretty good Rajiv... is there a way I can add the URL to this method... ie multi-dimensional array?

 

 

EDIT:  Nevermind... I found it.

 

$sponsors[0][0]="images\sponsors\sponsor0.php"

$sponsors[0][1]="http:\\www.mywebsite.com"

 

Thanks for all the great and quick help everyone!!!

[mrMarcus]

extending on what aeroswat did you can simply do this

 

<?php
      $sponsors[0]="images/sponsors/sponsor0.png";
      $sponsors[1]="images/sponsors/sponsor1.png";
      $sponsors[2]="images/sponsors/sponsor2.png";
      $sponsors[3]="images/sponsors/sponsor3.png";
      shuffle($sponsors);
               
      echo "<table border='0' cellpadding='2' cellspacing='4' width='100%'><tr>";
    $count = 0;
    foreach ($sponsors as $sponsor) {
         if(($count % 3) == 0) {
            echo "</tr><tr>" . "<td class='sponsor'><img src='" . $sponsor . "'/></td>";
         } else {
            echo "<td class='sponsor'><img src='" . $sponsor . "'/></td>";
         }
         $count++;
      }
      echo "</tr></table>";
     ?>

 

shortened it up a bit:

 

<?php
$range = range (0, 60);
shuffle ($range);
	   
echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="4" width="100%"><tr>';
for ($i=0; $i<=count($range); $i++)
{
if (($i % 3) == 0) {
	echo '</tr><tr><td class="sponsor"><img src="images/sponsers/sponser' . $i . '.png" /></td>';
} else {
	echo '<td class="sponsor"><img src="images/sponsers/sponser' . $i . '.png"/></td>';
}
}
echo '</tr></table>';
?>

[rymco]

Thanks for the reply mrMarcus... I change the sponsorX.png file names for the purpose of posting the code only.