Ad banners, set to random

[dachshund]

Hi, at the moment on my site I have four ad banners, all the same size. At the moment they are in separate areas of the site and stay as they are.

 

Now I would like to have them all in the same position, but on rotation/random. So the banner changes between all four each time you refresh/visit the page.

 

I know how to do this for the image with rand() but not for the image and the accompanying like <a href="">

 

Anyone know how I can do this?

 

Thanks!

[Buddski]

Firstly I would create an array that holds the images src or filename and the associated url for the href.. then randomly grab an item from the array and display it..

[mattal999]

This would suit you nicely (UNTESTED):

 

<?php

$ads = array(
    array("http://www.google.com/", "/images/googlead.jpg"), 
    array("http://www.yahoo.co.uk/", "/images/yahooad.jpg")
);

$i = rand(0, (count($ads)-1));
echo "<a href=\"".$ads[$i][0]."\"><img src=\"".$ads[$i][1]."\" /></a>";

?>

 

You can then put that in a separate file and include it in a page.

 

[dachshund]

thanks that works great!