Replying to Bennet's Multifolder Random Image

Also, could I change the line:
return '<img src="./'.$randir[$getrandir].''.$imgarray[$rand].'" width="600" align="top">';
so that if I click it, it also opens randomizer.php?

For example, could I <a href a php returned image as well?

I attached the randomizer.php file to this post.


Oh and 8ennet, I started the php tutorial and am reading it daily.

Yes you can change the line:

return '<img src="./'.$randir[$getrandir].''.$imgarray[$rand].'" width="600" align="top">';

to:

return '<a href="http://www.loldmypan...zer.php#bottom" target="_blank" border="0"><img src="./'.$randir[$getrandir].''.$imgarray[$rand].'" width="600" align="top"></a>';

This will open randomizer in a new tab (or window) however if you want it to load on the current page remove target="_blank". Also we set the border to 0 so that default blue square isn't around the edge of your image (the kind that turns purple once you have visited that link).

Also great to hear you are reading that tutorial, how's it going?

Also the reason why the image isn't showing up is because of that extra slash at the beginning. If you change the slash to ./ then it should work fine (globally understood by all browsers).

For example <img src="./'.$randir[$getrandir].''.$imgarray[$rand].'"

Yea that worked. Thanks.
I also changed the form action. However, the url is still http://loldmypants.c...zer.php?#bottom
The question mark after randomizer.php is still showing up. Although it doesn't bother me, I don't get why it does.

Also, could I change the line:
return '<img src="./'.$randir[$getrandir].''.$imgarray[$rand].'" width="600" align="top">';
so that if I click it, it also opens randomizer.php?

For example, could I <a href a php returned image as well?

I attached the randomizer.php file to this post.


Oh and 8ennet, I started the php tutorial and am reading it daily.

For example <img src="./'.$randir[$getrandir].''.$imgarray[$rand].'"

that's the fix you are looking for. i was wrong to assume that the script returns the full folder information from the main folder or 'www'/'public_html'

can you attach as a forum reply your existing randomizer.php so i can check it out? there are still a few bugs with it.
about the question mark "?"

on your html source code i saw this lines..

<FORM METHOD="LINK" ACTION=""> 
 <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="New Picture"> 
 </FORM>

the empty action part causes the extra '?' to be padded. there should be something between 'ACTION=""' in your case you can just put randomizer.php on that part. an <a href='randomizer.php'> will also work as replacement for the FORM tags.

Agreed, change the action to randomizer.php.

Also the reason why the image isn't showing up is because of that extra slash at the beginning. If you change the slash to ./ then it should work fine (globally understood by all browsers).

For example <img src="./'.$randir[$getrandir].''.$imgarray[$rand].'"

Also, just a bit of useful advice. Remember that when running your server on a linux machine then it is essential to have all file names and extensions name with proper casing. When I was building a site, in the php file i referred to an image called "image1.png" however the real name of the file was "image1.PNG" but because I didn't write the extension in uppercase then linux couldn't find the file.

So basically what was once <img src="image1.png" /> wouldn't work but <img src="image1.PNG" /> would work because the real image was named like that.

Not really relevant to this topic but something your MUST remember.

Thanks for pointing that out.

I made the change and when I view the source code, it displays it as /useruploads/random***.jpg but the picture still fails to come up. I've also noticed that if I leave out the / at the end, a ? appears after the randomizer.php. This doesn't appear if I put / at the end.

What does the question mark mean/do?

can you attach as a forum reply your existing randomizer.php so i can check it out? there are still a few bugs with it.
about the question mark "?"

on your html source code i saw this lines..

<FORM METHOD="LINK" ACTION=""> 
<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="New Picture"> 
</FORM>

the empty action part causes the extra '?' to be padded. there should be something between 'ACTION=""' in your case you can just put randomizer.php on that part. an <a href='randomizer.php'> will also work as replacement for the FORM tags.

Thanks for pointing that out.

I made the change and when I view the source code, it displays it as /useruploads/random***.jpg but the picture still fails to come up. I've also noticed that if I leave out the / at the end, a ? appears after the randomizer.php. This doesn't appear if I put / at the end.

What does the question mark mean/do?

i checked your site and there was a problem..
if you added an extra '/' on the end of the URL.. the picture fails to load. you can fix this by rewriting this part of your code

<img src="useruploads/random139.jpg" width="600" align="top">

into

<img src="/useruploads/random139.jpg" width="600" align="top">

to do that change on your generating script, just locate this line of code

return '<img src="'.$randir[$getrandir].''.$imgarray[$rand].'" width="'

and change it to

return '<img src="/'.$randir[$getrandir].''.$imgarray[$rand].'" width="'

see the red item..

i discovered the problem when i click your hotlink.. normally this wont cause problems but you must also note that some links are being padded with an extra / on some browsers.

Yeah i think I know what you mean, add this to the end of the <img> tag in randomizer.php

align="top"

or failing that try

align="texttop"

It's because of the adverts either side of the image, just change the image alignment and it should work fine. eg.

<img src="blah.jpg" align="texttop" />

Hey it's me again. For some reason the pictures that come up on my randomizer.php are sometimes forced under where the picture is supposed to be. For example, if it is supposed to be in the middle of the screen, the top of the picture will be right where the bottom of the picture is supposed to be. When this happens the picture is under the "New Picture" button and you can only see a tiny bit of the top.


Do you know what the problem is?

It happens very randomly, but, because the images are random too, it might be because of the picture.

Thank you both. It works perfectly