Nice hack. You know what would be cool? Turn this into a random thumb rotator for forum images (category image) hack out here somewhere.

How do I put this into a module? for my CMPS?

its not working for me! HEEEEEEEEEEEELP!

I have tried everything!

my site is "www.dawire.net"

the PATH for my site is "public_html/forums/images/randompics/"

My delimiter is "random" and I even went a inserted that in all my pics in that directory.

I even put the "$randpic" code in the header template and I get is a big red X. Can someone help me please?

Has anyone figured out if certain browsers or I don't know what might cause the variable to not work?

I have one user that cannot see the images on his home computer, but can on his work computer.

I got a copy of the source grabbed from View Source in IE and the IMG code that would normally get placed where the $randpic# variable is in the code is simply not there at all.

It's like his browser doesn't process the variable.

So instead of this:
his browser has this:

I'm not sure what the fix is , but I can see what's going on.

You're generating this for the images:
The variable should be generating something more like a url.

I have now seen this problem on my own computer with a portal page that I am building. The banner shows up fine on the regular forum pages, but not in the banner. When I look at the generated source, I see everything but what would have replaced the variable - like the second code example above.

I've been looking at this one and am about to test it on a drupal portal.

I think there's two ways to go about this.

1. drupal's index.php is pretty simple and has a couple of includes. Adding another would be pretty simple.

2. one of the includes that drupal has is common.inc which has a bunch of functions that get used by various modules of drupal. I am going to try and add the function from your xml file into that include file and see how it goes.

I would suspect that any other portal solution would have similar architecture that one could take advantage of.

Does anyone see any issues with either of these approaches?


I guess that including global.php would be a good thing to do if there were other functions/features that we could take advantage of in the portal.
I just started the portal stuff 3 days ago, so I have no idea if there is anything in global that would be beneficial.

Correction is as follows :D
It's $randpic not $randimg :)

Some TOUGH mod to figure out at start but thanks to you i've managed to get there :nervous:.

It's just what i was looking for ;) Great mod!

this works fine EXCEPT on index.php home page. What's going on?

I installed this on my FFXI message board, and it's a huge hit. I have about 107 game screenshots from my game group. Only having one show at a time, randomly, on the frontpage is a fun way to keep everyone's interest. Some members have claimed to just sit clicking refresh to see all the pics. For being a vBulletin newbie, I didn't have too much trouble getting it to work. Installing the plugin was pretty easy. I had a little trouble figuring out what the plugin wanted for the directory location (not the directory URL). The hardest part for me was making a table that looked like a vBulletin table and putting it on the page in a way that didn't break formatting or anything. But, as I mentioned, I'm still learning. It's a really cool plugin though - the first modification other than a style change I've done so far.