Random Images with Javascript?

Question

I want a random image (from the choice of many) to appear on the front page of my website. I believe using Javascript would be the best method. the picture will also be a link to another URL.
Can somoebody please give me some code I could copy and paste (and tell me where to put it i.e etc.) or even suggest a good site where i could get the code myself?

Many thanks

I'm afraid it's a basic HTML site as I am in the process of teaching myself ASP and PHP & MySQL.

Thanks for looking. Each picture shall have a different link

This may sound daft but how does Javascript know where to search for the images? Is it standard procedure to save the html page that contains the JS code in the same folder as the images?

Answer 1

the easiest way would be to create an array of images that matches with an array of links (if you are using different links for each image, I couldn't tell from you question). Then just get a random number that is in the array range (I forget the function call for this) and display that image/link.

Answer 2

Try this link.
You will want to add a new array to hold the details of the link url.
Then change the showImage function to write the tag around the tag.

Answer 3

for you to try 2 concerns. a million) If the BR is the alternative of . Then replace the BR with the known cost and notice if that works. If no longer then try... 2) the path src sources of the img tags variations from rand == 6 on. try putting the finished path (with the prefix C:Usersguerrald) and notice if that corrects the catch 22 situation. wish this helps, -John

Answer 4

I would suggest you to do the random logic at the server end asp/php etc. can you tell me what is your server language?

Answer 5

its actually a lot easier with PHP