Hi,

I have a number of tips overlaying a website banner which are text. I want them to change at random everytime a user refreshes the page. Any ideas how to do this? I am using php. I know how to do this for images, but unsure how text based will work.

 

Thanks

Theres plenty of examples on the internet, and a few different methods.

 

Here's a very basic one.

 

<?php 

$quotes[] = "This is a quote"; 
$quotes[] = "This is another"; 
$quotes[] = "quote 3"; 
$quotes[] = "quote 4"; 
$quotes[] = "quote 5"; 
$quotes[] = "quote 6"; 

srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000); 
$randomquote = rand(0,count($quotes)-1); 

echo "<p>" . $quotes[$randomquote] . "</p>"; 

?>

Theres plenty of examples on the internet, and a few different methods.

 

Here's a very basic one.

 

<?php 

$quotes[] = "This is a quote"; 
$quotes[] = "This is another"; 
$quotes[] = "quote 3"; 
$quotes[] = "quote 4"; 
$quotes[] = "quote 5"; 
$quotes[] = "quote 6"; 

srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000); 
$randomquote = rand(0,count($quotes)-1); 

echo "<p>" . $quotes[$randomquote] . "</p>"; 

?>

 

This could come in handy

 

Is there a way of adding HTML to;

 

$quotes[] = "This is a quote"; 
$quotes[] = "This is another"; 
$quotes[] = "quote 3"; 
$quotes[] = "quote 4"; 
$quotes[] = "quote 5"; 
$quotes[] = "quote 6";

<?php 


$quotes[] = '<a href="#kapow">This is some html</a>'; 
$quotes[] = '<div id="html_box" style="border:5px solid blue; padding:5px;">This is a box with a blue border</div>'; 
$quotes[] = 'quote 3'; 
$quotes[] = 'quote 4'; 
$quotes[] = 'quote 5'; 
$quotes[] = 'quote 6'; 

srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000); 
$randomquote = rand(0,count($quotes)-1); 

echo '<p>' . $quotes[$randomquote] . '</p>'; 

?>

 

That would work.

 

Just make sure you use alternate quotes to differentiate between php and html.

 

Notice i changed the php quotes to ' and then for the html i've used "