Random Pic Of The Day Script.

[25PSi]

Hey guys.

 

I am looking for a script of some kind that would display a random pic from the bunch of pics on my page for me.

 

Trick is, i need it to pick ANY picture (No spcial naming convention) from given folder AND have ability to go into foders within, looking for more pictures. Follow me? Not sure i am clear.

 

Basicly i need it to display all and any picture (Say all .JPG) from this folder even if there are other folders with pictures inside main folder.

 

I found some scripts but none of them seems to be able to do what i need it to.

 

Anyone?

 

Eugene

[MikeJ]

This is what I used to use. I'm not even sure where I originally picked up the example, but I'm not the original author of it, but I do know it's free to use.

 

><?php


# Put the SERVER PATH to image directory.
# INCLUDE trailing slash
$dir = "/home/youraccount/public_html/images/random/";


# Put the HTML PATH to image directory.
# DO NOT include trailing slash
$html_dir = "http://www.******/images/random";


$dir_handle = opendir($dir);
$image_array = array();


# This opens up the image directory, grabs all files with a ".jpg" extension
# and puts them into an array. You can set whatever extension you'd like here.
# Just switch out the .jpg for .gif, etc. If you have more than one extension,
# replace this line with something like this:
# if (($file !=".") && ($file !="..") && (substr($file, -4) == ".jpg") || (substr($file, -4) == ".gif"))) {
# This will pull up all .jpg OR .gifs. If you name all the images you want to pull
# a certain way (example, image-thumb.jpg or image.thumb.jpg) you can do this:
# if (($file !=".") && ($file !="..") && (substr($file, -10) == ".thumb.jpg")) {
# basically you want to put the extension in quotes and then count how many characters
# it is and place that after $file, -


while ($file = readdir($dir_handle)) {
if (($file !=".") && ($file !="..")) {
$file_name = "$html_dir/$file";
$image_array[$file_name] = $file_name;
}
}


# sorts the array. For some reason this won't work at all
# unless this is done. Can anyone tell me why?
sort($image_array);


$count = sizeof($image_array);


# trims all the URLs of whitespace and assigns each
# item in the array a number to identify it.
for($i = 0;$i<$count; $i++) {
$image[$i] = rtrim($image_array[$i]);
}


# assign a random value
$r = rand(0,$count-1);


# get the size of a random image
$size = getimagesize($image[$r]);
$width = $size[0];
$height = $size[1];


# This is the HTML output. You can change any of this, but you should
# leave src=\"$image[$r]\" width=\"$width\" height=\"$height\" where it is.
# Remember to escape any quotation marks, etc.
$img_src = "<center><img src=\"$image[$r]\" width=\"$width\" height=\"$height\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"1\" alt=\"This is a Random Image\" /></center>";

echo $img_src;

# closes the directory (why keep it open?)
closedir ($dir_handle);


?>

[25PSi]

Yes, good script, thanx.

 

But it do not look like it would go into additional folders inside of main folder. Or will it?

 

Eugene

[TCH-Thomas]

Moving for organization.