Hi, please advise how to randomly rotate partial or whole content of the main/index page (and some other pages too). A web site is made in FP2003, it contains pure HTML and reside on Windows server. I suppose that I need some JavaScript... Thanks in advance.
the_pm
06-23-2006, 12:44 PM
JavaScript would be a very bad idea, for both the sake of visitors and search engines. Does your server have PHP available? You could insert something like this:
<?
$files = glob('[insert path to a folder you've created for random files]/*');
include $files[array_rand($files)];
?>
Then, just drop a bunch of individual text files into that specified folder (with markup around the objects in the files too). The script will automatically pull a random file and insert it into your page. This is MUCH easier than using JavaScript, and much more reliable.
Unfortunately, at this moment, it seems that only ASP scripting is possible. Are you familiar with some ASP solutions?
ezbnc
06-23-2006, 07:04 PM
the_pm thanks for the help it helped me for sure :)
the_pm
06-24-2006, 08:59 PM
You're welcome Kris :) You can thank WHT member Sea Otter for that little gem. I'm just passing it along.
As for an ASP version, I have to believe the actual scripting would be just as easy. I'll move this thread to the programming forum and see what people have to say there.
Thanks the_pm! I hope that someone here can provide some hint or solution for non-PHP users too.