So I have this script that will rotate images located in a directory, which works great. However, it requires a refresh of the page in order to rotate the image. Is there a way I can modify this to have it rotate the image when the image itself is clicked?
Thanks in advance
HTML:
<img src="rotate.php" alt="random image" />
PHP:
<?php
$folder = 'images/';
$exts = 'jpg jpeg png gif';
$files = array(); $i = -1;
if ('' == $folder) $folder = './';
$handle = opendir($folder);
$exts = explode(' ', $exts);
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
foreach($exts as $ext) {
if (preg_match('/\.'.$ext.'$/i', $file, $test)) {
$files[] = $file;
++$i;
}
}
}
closedir($handle);
mt_srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$rand = mt_rand(0, $i);
header('Location: '.$folder.$files[$rand]);
?>
Update: this is very basic but test it out and see if it works;
<script>
function changeImage(o){
o.src = 'http://www.domain.com/testtest.php?' + (new Date()).getTime(); // time to help stop caching
}
</script>
<img src="http://www.domain.com/testtest.php" onclick="changeImage(this)" />
and in your php add a content header to send the image eg if it is a gif
or png...
<?php
// see link at bottom for getting file extention
switch ($selected_random_file_extention) {
case "gif":
header('Content-type: image/gif');
$file_ext = "gif"; break;
case "jpg":
header('Content-type: image/jpg')
$file_ext = "jpg"; break;
case 3:
header('Content-type: image/png');
$file_ext = "png"; break;
}
//header('Content-type: image/gif'); // send as image
//$random_image_name = rand(1,5);
// you would add $folder.$files[$rand]; and include you script above
$random_image_name = $folder.$files[$rand];
// adjust paths as needed
$img_file = "http://www.domain.com/".$random_image_name.".gif";
// .$file_ext;
readfile($img_file); // not sure how memory will go
?>
The idear is to set the header
content type and to read and write the file to the output buffer using readfile
, armed with this you could use ajax as another means to request the image and using the status
to easly display a loading indicator.
If you where to Rewrite the URL you could change the extension of .php for the src or not even have an extention.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.pathinfo.php
using pathinfo 'extension'
you can get the extention and then set the
approprate Content-type
<script>
function changeSrc(element) {
var file_names = ["image1.png", "image2.png", "image3.png"]; //etc
var i = Math.floor(Math.random() * file_names.length);
element.src = file_names[i];
}
</script>
<img src="image1.png" onclick="changeSrc(this)">
Just join your $files into a quoted comma separated string and insert that as the value for the file_names array above.
You could add an IFRAME and then with javascript, refresh that frame randomly
Have you looked into doing this with ajax? This way you could trigger the PHP, then refresh the image, but not the rest of the page.
If you dont want to his client side then I would add a link round your IMG tag and split your PHP script into two files.
<a href="rotate.php"><img src="random.php" alt="random image" /></a>
File 1 (rotate.php): Rotates the images
File 2 (random.php): Redirects to the random image
header('Location: '.$folder.$files[$rand]);