21 Nice

Always admired Hivelogic’s image rotation, but mainly for the fabulous retro pics. ;^)

Great article and loving the new ALA look.

posted at 11:58 am on October 22, 2003 by Davezilla

22 How about a text rotator ?

‘scuse me while i’m being a newbie, but i’d also like a “text rotator”, to display random silly proverbs and phrases… and, er… does this sort of things exist yet?
(i’m sure it does… no?)

posted at 12:29 pm on October 22, 2003 by Satellio Box

23 … and how about a styled text rotator ?

… and if the randomly displayed text could use styles, it would be heaven…

posted at 12:30 pm on October 22, 2003 by Satellio Box

24 My own take on image rotation

I’m using a PHP script to change the background image for our new site that is in development. I’m looking at changing the image for national/state holidays, the seasons, school events, etc.

posted at 12:39 pm on October 22, 2003 by Jason

25 sweet mother of god

that was SO easy. luck was on my side today, because i had planned to write a randomizer script after i had read my daily links, but when i saw this article, i didn’t have to write my own.

thanks dan, you’re brilliant.

posted at 12:40 pm on October 22, 2003 by p

26 Header Redirect Rotator

Someone earlier mentioned using 302 temporary redirects to rotate the image. When Dan first released this method I wrote something that did this, available here:

http://photomatt.net/scripts/randomimage

This has given me some good ideas I’ll incorporate into that script. The header method has another advantage that no file that couldn’t already be accessed through your document_root is available, so you can readfile(’/etc/passwd’) or something similarly nasty like that.

posted at 01:14 pm on October 22, 2003 by Matt

27 Debugged script

The debugged script is online in the same location as the previous script, namely:

http://www.alistapart.com/d/randomizer/rotate.txt

posted at 01:21 pm on October 22, 2003 by apartness

28 Regarding The Flaw

It’s been fixed and the new version is in place. If you’ve already installed a copy on your server, consider grabbing the new file.

Thanks to Justin Greer and Milo Vermeulen for their suggestions!

posted at 02:03 pm on October 22, 2003 by Dan Benjamin

29 Works for me

The script works great for me in Firebird, Safarai, and all other browsers I have tried. Thanks so much!

-Patty

posted at 02:08 pm on October 22, 2003 by pattyb

30 Awesome Hack!

Thanks for the great script. Works well in Firebird 0.6.1, Opera 7.11 and Internet Explorer 6.0. I even got it to work with Konqueror which surprised me.

Someone mentioned about accessibility and this script earlier. I decided to add a longdesc of my rotating images to the script. That way I could define my title and alt tags as Rotating Images… I got it to validate XHTML 1.1 with no problem.

posted at 03:55 pm on October 22, 2003 by Kevin Miller