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jonhenshaw on 08/28/07


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This randomly displays 1 of the 5 arrays (amount of arrays to choose from can be reduced or increased)

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  1. /*
  2. Inspired by
  3. Simple randomizer.
  4. Roger Johansson, http://www.456bereastreet.com/
  5. */
  6. echo '<div class="name">' . "\n";
  7. $items = array(
  8. 	1 => array(
  9. 		'href' => 'link.html',
  10. 		'title' => 'text',
  11. 		'src' => 'image-1.jpg',
  12. 		'alt' => 'text'
  13. 	),
  14. 	2 => array(
  15. 		'href' => 'link.html',
  16. 		'title' => 'text',
  17. 		'src' => 'image-2.jpg',
  18. 		'alt' => 'text'
  19. 	),
  20. 	3 => array(
  21. 		'href' => 'link.html',
  22. 		'title' => 'text',
  23. 		'src' => 'image-3.jpg',
  24. 		'alt' => 'text'
  25. 	),
  26. 	4 => array(
  27. 		'href' => 'link.html',
  28. 		'title' => 'text',
  29. 		'src' => 'image-4.jpg',
  30. 		'alt' => 'text'
  31. 	),
  32. 	5 => array(
  33. 		'href' => 'link.html',
  34. 		'title' => 'text',
  35. 		'src' => 'image-5.jpg',
  36. 		'alt' => 'text'
  37. 	)
  38. );
  39.  
  40. $item = $items[rand(1,5)];
  41. echo "\t" . '<a href="' . $item['href'] . '" title="' . $item['title'] . '"><img src="' . $item['src'] . '" alt="' . $item['alt'] . '"></a>' . "\n";
  42. echo '</div>' . "\n";

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