How do i create rotating images in my theme?

[ejoj]

Og and trying to do a direct link to script gives me the 403 df error page
Here is a direct link for the script www.peugeot-sport-club...rotate.php

Sorry for doublepost, didn't know i couldn't edit

[Savis]

ok updated information now you have an idea of what im trying to do ?

site is

www.eternalfate.com

[ejoj]

This is a solution I found working,I renamed the script to .png and remove the png in the array.
Then i made i htaccess file in the directory with the scripts and the pictures wich included this line

Code::

AddType application/x-httpd-php .png

I'm sure there are more elegant weays to do this, but hey it works atleast

[Savis]

bump?

[rlgura]

Actually, after posting this response, I thought of a much easier solution.
If you want it to always display a random image (meaning the same article will have a different topic icon everytime you view it), you might try this:

[ Edit by admin] Link removed and post merged with our forum 'STICKY' topic - more information provided on page one of this thread. [/edit]

Except make the modification to templates/news/index.html instead of header.html

[Savis]

the problem with this is the fact that it will randomize the topic images on the page but ALL of the images will be the same insted of having diffrent images for each topic..


The best way i can think of doing this is to have a script that has a list of all of your images in a folder and when you submit the news it will bind that image to that topic randomly....

how to do this I have no clue...

[Mel]

t31os wrote:

What does this script do? This script will rotate images in a set folder, so your random images need to go in a dedicated folder - eg. ' /YOURTHEME/images/random/ '

The above says...it is a script and a dedicated folder...??????

Did you read the beginning of this thread? I will make it easy for you: click here

[Savis]

ok so why was my topic merged with this one before any one got a full understanding of what i was looking for?

[Mel]

Savis wrote:

ok so why was my topic merged with this one before any one got a full understanding of what i was looking for?

And that is?....

We are trying to help you.
Please answer our questions so we can understand.
It the above posts do not help you then you need to explain in GREAT DETAIL.

[websmythe]

djdevon3 wrote:

I haven't actually tried the code t31os posted but if it works then it is much more diverse than what I'm going to post. I've archived t31os script here: www.treasurecoastdesig...;p=377#377 And the one Kristin did for xsport which is much easier to manage but only does images. Good for random header images. Kristin's code is much smaller and simple to work with. I recommend this method to those daunted by t31os's code: www.treasurecoastdesig...=1226#1226

I'm trying to use Kristin's solution for a rotating image, but Debug says that array & image vars are undefined. They aren't any defined any different than other vars in the file. I've I checked the Php manual and other links, but as I'm new to Php I'm kinda lost. Could someone point me in the right direction? Thanx.

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themes/reDesign/theme.php * Notice line 160: Undefined variable: random_image * Notice line 160: Undefined variable: random_array

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<!-- themes/reDesign/theme.php --> $textcolor1 = '#009900'; $textcolor2 = '#000000'; $hr = 1; /* deprecated? */ $array = array('01.jpg', '02.jpg', '03.jpg'); $image = rand(0, count($array)-1); $cpgtpl->assign_vars(array( ... 'RAND_IMG' => $array[$image], <!-- * line 160 --> ... ));

[Eestlane]

Something´s wrong. Could you paste the whole theme.php and check if the error was exactly that you posted.

[websmythe]

Thanx for the reply. I cut and pasted the error displayed at the bottom of the the admin page. Here is the full error/notice list with all debug options turned on. The theme is reDesign2. I've already checked but I changed the names, from $array, $image and RAND_IMG to $random_array, $random_image & RANDOM_IMAGE, in case there was a conflict with any reserved words

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SQL Queries: includes/classes/blocks.php * 0.0007 - LINE 188: SELECT bid, bkey, title, content, url, blockfile, view, refresh, time FROM cms_blocks WHERE active='1' AND bid IN (1,8,7,2,5,9,4,6,3) themes/reDesign/includes/cssmainmenu.php * 0.0007 - LINE 66: SELECT m.title as link, m.custom_title as title, m.view, m.active, m.inmenu, m.cat_id AS category, m.pos AS linkpos, c.name, c.image, c.pos AS catpos, c.link AS catlnk, c.link_type AS cattype FROM cms_modules AS m LEFT JOIN cms_modules_cat c ON (c.cid = m.cat_id) * 0.0003 - LINE 86: SELECT l.title, l.link, l.link_type, l.view, l.active, l.cat_id AS category, l.pos AS linkpos, c.name, c.image, c.pos AS catpos, c.link AS catlnk, c.link_type AS cattype FROM cms_modules_links AS l LEFT JOIN cms_modules_cat c ON (c.cid = l.cat_id) modules/CPGNuCalendar/includes/functions.inc * 0.0005 - LINE 40: SELECT custom_title FROM cms_modules WHERE title='CPGNuCalendar' modules/CPGNuCalendar/admin/adwait.inc * 0.0003 - LINE 31: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cms_cpgnucalendar WHERE approved=0 modules/News/admin/adwait.inc * 0.0002 - LINE 19: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cms_queue modules/coppermine/admin/adwait.inc * 0.0002 - LINE 19: SELECT prefix FROM cms_cpg_installs WHERE dirname = 'coppermine' * 0.0001 - LINE 20: SELECT dirname FROM cms_cpg_installs WHERE cpg_id=1 * 0.0003 - LINE 22: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cms_cpg_pictures WHERE approved=0 themes/reDesign/includes/cssmainmenu.php * Notice line 31: Constant _MYATTACHMENTS_SPECIAL already defined * Notice line 264: Undefined index: cat_name blocks/block-Languages.php * CMS Warning line 24: Multilingual is off themes/reDesign/theme.php * Notice line 160: Undefined variable: random_image * Notice line 160: Undefined variable: random_array

PHP:

<?php /********************************************* CPG Dragonfly™ CMS ******************************************** Copyright © 2004 - 2009 by CPG-Nuke Dev Team dragonflycms.org Dragonfly is released under the terms and conditions of the GNU GPL version 2 or any later version $Source: /cvs/themes/reDesign/theme.php,v $ $Revision: 1.40 $ $Author: estlane $ $Date: 2009/02/07 16:07:27 $ $Version: 9.2.1.5 **********************************************/ if (!defined('CPG_NUKE')) { exit; } //Required Dragonfly version define('THEME_VERSION', '9.2'); /* Text color on security image, THIS_THEME/images/code_bg.png */ $gfxcolor = '#000000'; /* Some background colours used by DF */ $bgcolor1 = '#FFFFFF'; /*topics, modules admin*/ $bgcolor2 = '#F2F9F2'; $bgcolor3 = '#F2FFFF';/*topics*/ $bgcolor4 = '#D7FFD7';/*modules admin*/ $textcolor1 = '#009900'; $textcolor2 = '#000000'; $hr = 1; /*deprecated?*/ // random image at top in header // $random_array = array('keelebanner1.jpg', 'keelebanner2.jpg', 'keelebanner3.jpg', 'keelebanner4.jpg', 'keelebanner5.jpg', 'keelebanner6.jpg', 'keelebanner7.jpg', 'keelebanner8.jpg', 'keelebanner9.jpg' ); $random_image = rand(0, count($random_array)-1); /* Beginning of an usual table of untemplated modules */ function OpenTable() { global $module_name, $in_coppermine; //$in_coppermine as it allows any module name for coppermine //(should do the same with Forums in future?) if ($module_name == 'Forums' || isset($in_coppermine)) { echo '<div>'; } else { echo '<div class="table1">'; } } /* End of an usual table of untemplated modules */ function CloseTable() {echo '</div>';} /* Beginning of some subtable in untemplated modules */ function OpenTable2() {echo '<div class="table2">';} /* End of some subtable in untemplated modules */ function CloseTable2() {echo '</div>';} function themeheader() { global $slogan, $sitename, $banners, $mainindex, $adminindex, $cpgtpl, $site_logo, $BASEHREF, $CPG_SESS, $MAIN_CFG, $pagetitle, $userinfo, $module_name, $home, $Blocks, $my_page_title, $multilingual, $currentlang; /* CSS Menu */ if ($MAIN_CFG['global']['admingraphic'] & 4) { include('themes/'.$CPG_SESS['theme'].'/includes/cssmainmenu.php'); } //include file to have proper language selection URL (or prevtheme) include_once('themes/'.$CPG_SESS['theme'].'/includes/valikurl.php'); $user_agent = isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] : ''; $pngfix = 0; $specific = 0; if (preg_match('#MSIE ([0-6].[0-9]{1,2})#', $user_agent)) { $specific = 'ie6.css'; $pngfix = 1; } else if (preg_match('#Opera/([0-9].[0-2][0-9])#', $user_agent)) { $specific = 'opera_merlin.css'; } else if (isset($_SESSION['SECURITY']['UA']) && $_SESSION['SECURITY']['UA'] == 'Safari') { $specific = 'safari.css'; } //We want to use some strings, which exists only in forums.php languagefile, it may cause a small downtime though if (!isset($lang['Back_to_top'])) { get_lang('forums'); global $lang; } if (!defined('_PASSWORDLOST')) { get_lang('your_account'); } /*Add left blocks to header.html*/ $Blocks->display('l'); /*Add right blocks to header.html*/ $Blocks->display('r'); $cpgtpl->assign_vars(array( 'BROWSER_CSS' => $specific ? "\n".'<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="themes/'.$CPG_SESS['theme'].'/style/browsers/'.$specific.'" />'."\n" : "\n", 'PNG_FIX' => $pngfix ? '<script defer="defer" type="text/javascript" src="themes/'.$CPG_SESS['theme'].'/javascript/pngfix.js"></script>'."\n" : '', 'PUBLIC_HEADER' => !defined('ADMIN_PAGES'), 'CURRENT_URL' => ereg_replace('&','&amp;',get_uri()), 'B_L_VISIBLE' => $Blocks->hideblock('600') ? ' style=" display: none"' : '', 'B_R_VISIBLE' => $Blocks->hideblock('601') ? ' style=" display: none"' : '', 'S_MAIN_MENU' => isset($mmcontent) ? $mmcontent : false, 'S_LIMAGE' => ($Blocks->l)? ($Blocks->hideblock('600')? 'left_plus' : 'left_minus') : '', 'S_RIMAGE' => ($Blocks->r)? ($Blocks->hideblock('601')? 'right_plus' : 'right_minus') : '', 'S_IS_ADMIN' => is_admin(), 'ALL_OK' => !$MAIN_CFG['global']['maintenance'] || is_admin(), 'S_CAN_ADMIN' => can_admin(), 'S_IS_USER' => is_user(), 'B_ANONYMOUS' => !is_user(), 'S_NEW_PM' => is_user() && is_active('Private_Messages') && ($userinfo['user_new_privmsg'] > 0)?(($userinfo['user_new_privmsg']>1)?$lang['You_new_pms']:$lang['You_new_pm']):false, 'S_LOGO' => $site_logo, 'S_SITENAME' => $sitename, 'S_USER_NAME' => $userinfo['username'], 'S_LOGINRDRT' => (isset($CPG_SESS['user']['redirect']) ? $CPG_SESS['user']['redirect'] : getlink()), 'S_REG_ALLOWED' => $MAIN_CFG['member']['allowuserreg'], 'S_NOT_NEWS' => ($module_name != 'News') || $home, 'MY_PAGE_TITLE' => (($module_name != 'Forums') && ($module_name != 'Wiki') && ($module_name != 'coppermine'))? '<a href="'.$mainindex.'">'._HOME.'</a> '._BC_DELIM.' '.$pagetitle : '', 'CUR_LANGUAGE' => $currentlang, 'S_FORUMS' => _ForumsLANG, 'S_DOWNLOADS' => is_active('Downloads') ? _DownloadsLANG : false, 'S_MY_ACCOUNT' => is_user() ? _Your_AccountLANG : _BREG, 'S_ADMINISTR' => _ADMINISTRATION, 'BC_DELIM' => _BC_DELIM, 'S_BANNER_ACT' => $banners, 'S_BANNER' => ($banners) ? viewbanner() : '', 'S_EDIT' => _EDIT, 'S_MULTILANG' => $multilingual, 'S_LANGUAGES' => $multilingual? show_langs():'', 'S_SEARCH_ACT' => is_active('Search'), 'U_SEARCH' => getlink('Search'), 'U_MAININDEX' => $mainindex, 'U_LOGOUT' => getlink('Your_Account&amp;op=logout&amp;redirect'), 'U_REGISTER' => getlink('Your_Account&amp;file=register'), 'U_PASSLOSS' => getlink('Your_Account&amp;op=pass_lost'), 'U_DOWNLOADS' => getlink('Downloads'), 'U_FORUMS' => getlink('Forums'), 'U_LOG_IN' => getlink('Your_Account'), 'U_MY_ACCOUNT' => getlink(is_user() ? 'Your_Account' : 'Your_Account&amp;file=register'), 'U_PM' => getlink('Private_Messages'), 'U_ESTONIAN' => valikvastus('newlang','estonian'), 'U_ENGLISH' => valikvastus('newlang','english'), 'U_ADMININDEX' => $adminindex, 'U_NEWSADMIN' => adminlink('News&amp;edit='), 'S_LASTVISIT' => is_user() ? sprintf($lang['You_last_visit'], formatDateTime($userinfo['user_lastvisit'], _DATESTRING)) : '', 'S_TIMENOW' => sprintf($lang['Current_time'], formatDateTime(time(), _DATESTRING)), 'S_NEW_POSTS' => $lang['New_posts'], 'S_CLOSE_WIN' => $lang['Close_window'], 'BACK_TO_TOP' => $lang['Back_to_top'], 'PM_IMAGE' => 'themes/'.$CPG_SESS['theme'].'/images/forums/lang_'.$currentlang.'/icon_contact_pm.gif', 'WWW_IMAGE' => 'themes/'.$CPG_SESS['theme'].'/images/forums/lang_'.$currentlang.'/icon_contact_www.gif', 'BASE_URL' => $BASEHREF, 'RANDOM_IMAGE' => $random_array[$random_image], 'HEADVARS_OK' => 1 //makes possible to check if we need to reassign some vars in footer if this is false )); } function themefooter() { global $MAIN_CFG, $cpgtpl, $banners; if ($MAIN_CFG['global']['maintenance'] && !is_admin()) { echo '</body></html>'; return; } $cpgtpl->assign_vars(array( 'S_BANNER_ACT' => $banners, 'S_BANNER' => ($banners) ? viewbanner() : '', 'S_FOOTER' => footmsg() )); /* In case the template array gets emptied, i.e during forums admin messages We assign some again, that are also used in footer */ if (!isset($cpgtpl->_tpldata['.'][0]['HEADVARS_OK'])) { global $CPG_SESS, $mainindex, $adminindex; /* CSS Menu */ if ($MAIN_CFG['global']['admingraphic'] & 4) { include('themes/'.$CPG_SESS['theme'].'/includes/cssmainmenu.php'); } //We want to use some strings, which exists only in forums.php languagefile, it may cause a small downtime though if (!isset($lang['Back_to_top'])) { get_lang('forums'); global $lang; } if (!defined('_PASSWORDLOST')) { get_lang('your_account'); } $cpgtpl->assign_vars(array( 'CURRENT_URL' => ereg_replace('&','&amp;',get_uri()), 'S_TIMENOW' => sprintf($lang['Current_time'], formatDateTime(time(), _DATESTRING)), 'S_IS_USER' => is_user(), 'S_LASTVISIT' => is_user() ? sprintf($lang['You_last_visit'], formatDateTime($userinfo['user_lastvisit'], _DATESTRING)) : '', 'BACK_TO_TOP' => $lang['Back_to_top'], 'S_MAIN_MENU' => isset($mmcontent) ? $mmcontent : false, 'U_MAININDEX' => $mainindex, 'U_DOWNLOADS' => getlink('Downloads'), 'U_FORUMS' => getlink('Forums'), 'U_MY_ACCOUNT' => getlink(is_user() ? 'Your_Account' : 'Your_Account&amp;file=register'), 'U_ADMININDEX' => $adminindex, 'S_DOWNLOADS' => is_active('Downloads') ? _DownloadsLANG : false, 'S_FORUMS' => _ForumsLANG, 'S_MY_ACCOUNT' => is_user() ? _Your_AccountLANG : _BREG, 'S_ADMINISTR' => _ADMINISTRATION )); } $cpgtpl->set_filenames(array('footer' => 'footer.html')); $cpgtpl->display('footer'); } /*********************************************************************************** string theme_open_form Creates start tag for form $get_link : link for action default blank $form_name : useful for styling and nbbcode $legend: optional string value is used in form lagend tag $border: optional use 1 to not show border on fieldset from stylesheet ************************************************************************************/ function theme_open_form($link, $form_name=false, $legend=false,$tborder=false) { $leg = $legend ? "<legend>$legend</legend>" : ''; $bord = $tborder ? $tborder : ''; $form_name = $form_name ? ' id="'.$form_name.'"' :''; return '<form method="post" action="'.$link.'"'.$form_name.' enctype="multipart/form-data" accept-charset="utf-8"><fieldset '.$bord.'>'.$leg; } function theme_close_form() { return '</fieldset></form>'; } /*********************************************************************************** string theme_yesno_option Creates 2 radio buttons with a Yes and No option $name : name for the <input> $value: current value, 1 = yes, 0 = no ************************************************************************************/ function theme_yesno_option($name, $value=0) { /*$sel[(!$value)] = ''; $sel[$value] = ' selected="selected"';*/ $sel = array('',''); $sel[$value] = ' checked="checked"'; $select = '<input type="radio" name="'.$name.'" id="'.$name.'" value="1"'.$sel[1].' /> <label class="rdr" for="'.$name.'">'._YES.'</label> <input type="radio" name="'.$name.'" id="'.$name.'" value="0" '.$sel[0].' /> <label class="rd" for="'.$name.'">'._NO.'</label> '; return $select; } /*********************************************************************************** string theme_select_option Creates a selection dropdown box of all given variables in the array $name : name for the <select> $value: current/default value $array: array like array("value1","value2") ************************************************************************************/ function theme_select_option($name, $value, $array) { $sel[$value] = ' selected="selected"'; $select = '<select class="set" name="'.$name.'" id="'.$name."\">\n"; foreach($array as $var) { $select .= '<option'.(isset($sel[$var])?$sel[$var]:'').">$var</option>\n"; } return $select.'</select>'; } /*********************************************************************************** string theme_select_box Creates a selection dropdown box of all given variables in the multi array $name : name for the <select> $value: current/default value $array: array like array("value1 => title1","value2 => title2") ************************************************************************************/ function theme_select_box($name, $value, $array) { $select = '<select class="set" name="'.$name.'" id="'.$name."\">\n"; foreach($array as $val => $title) { $select .= "<option value=\"$val\"".(($val==$value) ? ' selected="selected"' : '').">$title</option>\n"; } return $select.'</select>'; }

[websmythe]

Forgot to include... DF recognizes the <div> and <img> statements as it displays the ALT value for the image, and the CSS correctly sizes the image space on the page. RANDOM_IMAGE is called in header.html as:

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<div class="random_image"> <img src="{THEME_PATH}/images/keele/random/{RANDOM_IMAGE}" alt="Feature Image" border="0" /> </div>

[Eestlane]

Put

PHP:

// random image at top in header // $random_array = array('keelebanner1.jpg', 'keelebanner2.jpg', 'keelebanner3.jpg', 'keelebanner4.jpg', 'keelebanner5.jpg', 'keelebanner6.jpg', 'keelebanner7.jpg', 'keelebanner8.jpg', 'keelebanner9.jpg' ); $random_image = rand(0, count($random_array)-1);

inside the themeheader function or add them to globals if you want to use them in other functions as well.

[websmythe]

Eestlane wrote:

Put ...[see above]... inside the themeheader function or add them to globals if you want to use them in other functions as well.

Thanx.
Works like a charm.