Synchronized Random Image Rotator HELP!

[Terra812]

I need a script that loads a two part image. An example of this is shown at the following site:

http://www.g-seed.com

The banner and the top bar consist of two images in two table cells and despite it being randomized (click refresh to see another banner), the top bar syncs with the banner image.

So though randomized, when topbar_1.jpg is loaded, banner_1.jpg is also loaded. If topbar_2.jpg is loaded, banner_3.jpg is also loaded.

When viewing the source of the site, it did not show any type of Javascript code, so I am assuming that this can be done with php. Maybe 2 arrays of images and storing them into two variables that are synced with each other maybe? I would really need this script and would appreciate it if anyone could help me out as I have no experience in PHP coding.

The following are a few links with topics from various forums of conceptually what I want to have done, but cannot find the solution:

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=101

[melancholic]

Hi there

here's the basic idea of how I may do this... I must warn you though, I'm a little out of it, but eh... here goes.

The simplest way is often the best. Why use PHP to randomise it, when you can retrieve random results from the datasource?

I would build a table with the following fields:

idads - int auto increment primary key
link - varchar(250) or TEXT
topbar - varchar(250)
banner - varchar(250)

populate your table like so:

idads | link | topbar | banner |
1	  | http://url1.com | topbar1.jpg | banner.jpg |
2	  | http://url2.com | somejpegfile.jpg | somebanner.jpg |
3	  | http://url3.com | anotherjpegfile.jpg | anotherbanner.jpg |

so with your table looking like so, you could get a result by using the rand() SQL function.

here's the SQL:

SELECT link, topbar, banner 
FROM rotatingads
ORDER BY rand()
LIMIT 1

HTH,

[kigoobe]

Are you asking something like this ?

$images1[] = 'img/1.jpg';
$images1[] = 'img/2.jpg';
$images1[] = 'img/3.jpg';
$images1[] = 'img/4.jpg';
$images1[] = 'img/5.jpg';
//you can add as many images as you want, then,
$images2[] = 'img/10.jpg';
$images2[] = 'img/20.jpg';
$images2[] = 'img/30.jpg';
$images2[] = 'img/40.jpg';
$images2[] = 'img/50.jpg';
//add the same number of images as images1
//and you can keep adding $images3, $images4, etc. Now,

srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
$random_number = rand(0,count($images1)-1);

print '<tr><td>'.$images1[$random_number].'</td></tr>';
print '<tr><td>'.$images2[$random_number].'</td></tr>'; 

In this way, each time the browser will load, you will get a new image, which itself consists of two parts which are inter-related. Just take care that 1.jpg relates to 10.jpg and so on ... rest will be fine. Hope I've understood the question ...