Comments on: Simple Random Image With PHP

By: ElanMan

ElanMan — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:07:55 +0000

Hi Hal, unfortunately, your comments have been buggered up by wordpress (or me). Could you please post them again inside

tags?

By: Hal

Hal — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:33:34 +0000

The image tag should read:

By: Hal

Hal — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:32:39 +0000

I’m getting the same thing. No images, just alt text. The generated image tag is as such:

Using print_r, I also get a listing of files in the directory.

Any ideas?

By: ElanMan

ElanMan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:57:39 +0000

Hi ALIT, the ‘.’ and ‘..’ simply reference the current directory and the parent directory; we don’t need to worry about them here.
Check the generated source of the page to see where the image src attribute points to. Also, try giving your images slightly longer names, pic1.jpg’ for example.
Let me know how you get on

By: ALIT

ALIT — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:44:55 +0000

Thanks for the help ElanMan. Included that code and get the following

A Random ImageArray ( [0] => . [1] => .. [2] => 1.jpg [3] => 2.jpg )

At the moment there are only 2 images in my directory, 1.jpg and 2.jpg. Not sure why the first 2 entries in the array are there however. The directory is simply “images/backgrounds/”. Im using MAMP on a mac.

By: ElanMan

ElanMan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:54:52 +0000

Hi ALIT,
So you’re getting ‘A Random Image’ as the alt text?
Directly after this code in the function:

echo ' . $imgs[$newrandImg] . '" alt="A Random Image" />';

place the following and let me know what it prints out.

print_r($files);

It should print out an array of the files in the directory.

By: ALIT

ALIT — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:22:05 +0000

Really helpfull, but im still a little confused. Quite new to php but, Ive presumed ‘phprotateimages’ your image directory, and ive set mine accordingly.

However im still not getting any images. Simply the displaying the alt attribute, but NOT the “Couldn’t read the file directory”.

Can you help?

By: ElanMan

ElanMan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:03:27 +0000

Glad you found it useful

By: What Work?

What Work? — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:52:43 +0000

Awesome, a simple change and I made it into a rotating ad function

By: Scott S

Scott S — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:12:09 +0000

Another nice article there mate

Dugg!