Support/Comments for RandomImage

Jon you could also create something automatic, as long as you are creating the images (and naming them)

<img src="../assets/images/[*alias*].jpg" /> or any varation

or GetParent...

I know this is possible, but I’m not a good enough coder to figure it out.

Can anyone mod the RandomImage code so that it lets you input a custom height or width or both parameters rather than the snippet using the image’s exact dimensions from the GetImageSize function?

Something like this...



I want to use RandomImage to display some photo images at 400px wide, but the problem is some are 401px, 403px, etc.
I also want to use the same snippet for some thumbnails at 100px wide, but some are 103px, etc. I know I can just hardcode these values into the snippet by replacing the $imgSize[3] (in the line of code below) and then create a duplicate snippet for each set of images I want to resize, but I’d like to do everything with just one RandomImage snippet. I know it’s possible, but I can’t figure it out.

I am sure I am being very stupid, but is there a simple way to set the RandomImage snippet as a background image?

Quote from: hendo at Jun 23, 2008, 06:04 AM

I am sure I am being very stupid, but is there a simple way to set the RandomImage snippet as a background image?

Did you try calling the snippet in place of where you’d put the background image?

I placed the call in the div where I wanted the image to appear, the div in question holds 2 further floating divs which were thrown out of position by the random image. I could not get them to sit above the image.

obviously doing something wrong but cannot figure out what.

I have tried all of the random image generators I can find here (and some I found elsewhere) with no real success. I have 3 images across the top of the page, and I want NEED them each to load randomly (from a folder of imgs all the same size) at each page load. I’d like them to have alt tags in a perfect world.

Can someone explain this one a little better, esp the "Yay, the chunk worked" comment? OR point me to a workable solution?

Thanks!