For this site, the only reason I am doing the random image display is to keep things interesting - pretty much just for entertainment purposes.

You want outside the box, OK.

One thing you could do is use it as a banner ad display system. Say you have five advertisement images you want to display. Using the random image selection, you could display a random advertisement on each page load. Add some more PHP functionality and you could also track which images get the most clicks.

Another idea not exactly related, but something that I actually did. I would rotate different variations of Google Adsense across a portfolio of web sites on different days of the month. All of the odd days, I would show one version and all of the even days, I would show another version. This way, I had a very simple tracking system when I logged into my account.

The code looked something like this:

< ?php

$day = date("j");
$day = $day % 2; // <- there's that modulus thing I keep talking about
if ($day < 1) {
print "Google Adsense 1";
} else {
print "Google Adsense 2";
}

?>

Dave

Could you post some ideas that this technique might be useful for? My thinking outside the box cap is lost. :(

Debra THAT Painter Lady.com

How do you do the same for random snippets, or lines of text that you have in one txt file?