Random Pictures from a directory

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June 21st, 2002, 04:52 AM

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Random Pictures from a directory

Hello All,

Does anyone know how to call random pictures from a directory. I can NOT use my MySQL database because it contains many more records than an individual directory. I want to call up 9 photos on one web page at random. Like each time the page is entered or refreshed?

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Ed Plummer
Saratoga Springs, NY

June 21st, 2002, 04:57 AM

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RE: Random Pictures from a directory

Well, if you don't want to store the filenames in a database....you can read in the file names from the directory into an array, then shuffle the array, then use the first nine.....

If you already have these in a database, why not just put a where clause on it to limit to that subdirectory?

June 21st, 2002, 05:37 AM

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RE: Random Pictures from a directory

Thanks for the advice Anonymous.

I think the where statement would be very very long to sort out the photos I wanted for the random pictures.

I am not sure but I might have to put them in an array, then do as you said anyways. I am not good at this PHP anyway.

Just starting out and I have one hell of a job ahead of me in short order.

Thanks again,
Ed

June 22nd, 2002, 04:31 AM

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RE: Random Pictures from a directory

Couldnt you just do something like this:

php Code:

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<?php mysql_connect(HOST, USER, PASS) or die("Couldnt connect to database"); mysql_select_db(DB) or die("Couldnt select database"); $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `table` ORDER BY rand() LIMIT 9"); $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); echo "{$row['column']}<br>"; ?>

 
<?php   
mysql_connect(HOST, USER, PASS) or die("Couldnt connect to database");  
mysql_select_db(DB) or die("Couldnt select database");  
    $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `table` ORDER BY rand() LIMIT 9");  
    $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);  
              
    echo "{$row['column']}<br>";  
?>

June 22nd, 2002, 05:43 PM

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RE: Random Pictures from a directory

Try this code, just put your images into a directory, enter a few config variables, and you're off:

http://firsttube.com/display.php?file=random_image_generator_v2.php

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