random image rotator component using ASP?
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Topic: random image rotator component using ASP?
Posted By: sarumu1
Subject: random image rotator component using ASP?
Date Posted: 09 February 2005 at 6:09pm
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Does anyone know of a good ASP solution for a random image rotator
component - something very similar to the image rotator created by Dan
Benjamin at a list apart : http://www.alistapart.com/articles/betterrotator/ (Dan Benjamin's solution is PHP based) I'm looking for a solution that will allow me to have a group of images that are kept in a folder designated for a specific page that will call up one of those images randomly. On top of that, I'm looking for a solution that will allow me to simply insert or remove an image from that folder without touching the source code that calls up the image. Any ideas? Subbu. |
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Posted By: bootcom
Date Posted: 27 February 2005 at 10:35pm
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Do it without using a component at all ... can I ask do you want it to call a random image everytime ??
If so, I can give you some code that will do this for you, just drop me a PM/ email and I will go through it with you.
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Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 27 February 2005 at 11:18pm
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IIS has a built in ad rotator component. Try doing a search on google, there are tons of tutorials.
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Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 28 February 2005 at 12:27am
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you could use a random number gen, and simply use filenames for your images which include those numbers (ie img_1.gif, img_2.gif etc) then wherever you want the random image, just go: images/img_<%=randomnumber%>.gif
obviously it requires all images to be the same file type, and it would require you to change the code whenever you changed the number of images in the folder and the above code undoubtedly use incorrect syntax, but you get my drift? whether thats just being overly creative for what might be a relatively simple problem i have no idea, but its a thought.
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