This is a function to randomly include text or an image from any specified directory. I got the idea and some of the code somewhere, but can't recall where. Think was from the examples on the PHP function page for srand.

To use: 1) copy the function and include in your php file, 2) call the randomizer(); function.

1. Copy this code

################################################################################
# Random img and text generator
################################################################################
// $type = img or text
// $server_dir is the unix directory where your files are
// $www_dir is the www directory where your files are. can be "" for text
function randomizer ($type,$server_dir,$www_dir){
	$handle=opendir($server_dir); 
	$counter = 0; 
	//load array with file names 
	while ($file = readdir($handle)) { 
		if ($file != "." && $file != ".."){ 
		$arr_Images[$counter] = $file; 
		$counter++; 
		} 
	} 
	closedir($handle);  
	srand((double)microtime()*1000000); 
	$randID = rand(0,$counter - 1); 
	if($type=="img"){
		echo "<img src=\"$www_dir/$arr_Images[$randID]\" border=\"0\" />";
	} elseif ($type=="text") {
		include("$server_dir/$arr_Images[$randID]"); 
	}
} # end function 

2. Call the function

To call the function, insert this code somewhere on a php page,

randomizer('[type:img|text]','[server path to directory],'[http path to directory]');

for example, this is how I call the function to include a random image:

randomizer('img','/u4/angeles/public_html/studio/img/home_hilite','/img/home_hilite');