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Hi

I am VERY new tp php, and found this script on php freaks, it is a randomizer script

[code]<?
/* Directory Structure
/index1.htm
/index2.htm

*/
srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$num = rand(1,2);

include ('index'.$num.'.htm');

?>[/code]

What I need to happen on my website is 3 blocks of text each in its own div to change every day (5 days to be precise), I got the above to work but as I said it is just a randomizer so each time you refresh it changes.

Also my dynamic content pages will sit in its own folder, and I would like to name the pages depending on what they are, eg, capetown.htm, garden-route.htm

Does that make sense, hope someone can help me!

thanks
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it might be best for the script to maybe check for a time of day?

For example. If it is past midnight, the date is different, and the info hasn't already been changed, then save information in the database. (or even a file, who cares in this situation).

then for that entire day it will show "whatever.htm" and at 12 midnight (or later) whenevery someone opens the page, the first person to open it after midnight, it will set this new information accordingly.

The things you'll need to look into to make this work is file reading/writing and date functions. that should be enough to get that idea done.
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[code]<?php
$doty = date("z"); // day of the year
$doty_remainder = $doty % 5 ; // remainder of day of the year divided by 5
$the_file = "path/to/my/files/news_". $doty_remainder. ".php"; // edit path info to suit
include($the_file);
?>[/code]

That'll need files news_0.php, news_1.php ..... news_4.php. Good luck.
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Andy B, that looks like it will be the best response I have received over 2 days, thank you!

I suppose if I need to have other items that rotate on a daily basis I just inser the same code but change the filenames eg

[code]<?php
$doty = date("z"); // day of the year
$doty_remainder = $doty % 5 ; // remainder of day of the year divided by 5
$the_file = "[b]dynamic/offers[/b]_". $doty_remainder. ".php"; // edit path info to suit
include($the_file);
?>[/code]

Also as a matter of interest if I did want those 5 pages to rotate randomly is there a way of adjusting the code you gave or would it be something different entirely?

Thanks again
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Answer to the first question is "Yes".

as to the second: to have a randomly selected page (from a lsit), I'd use code like this:

[code]<?php
$pages = array("page1.php", "gardening.php", "fishing.php", "whatever.php"); // as many as you want
$the_file = $pages[rand(0,count($pages)-1)]; // select a random page from the array
include($the_file);
?>[/code]

You can add file names to the array and the rest of the code can remain as written.
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