Author Topic: Random Link (Read 1763 times)

SurfSmarter · « **on:** March 30, 2011, 02:44:39 PM »

Mark et al,

I appear to be getting thick in my old age, and i'm not referring just to the waistline, lol. So I must defer to anyone whose age isn't affecting them to the same degree...

How can I set random/rotated link(s) to appear in the footer of a site?

The link(s) would be called from a single simple source file (maybe .txt or html) hosted on a separate server.

Basically use would be as a "sponsored by theme" but each 'fresh' load would pull a different click-able text link from the master list.

Any insight is alway appreciated

John

Mark Austin · « **Reply #1 on:** March 30, 2011, 03:58:09 PM »

Hi John,

Here's what I use on WP:

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<a href="http://MyDomain.com/Randomlink[php]echo rand(1, 10);[/php].php">Click here</a>

Which results in "http://MyDomain.com/Randomlink1.php" through "http://MyDomain.com/Randomlink10.php"

For "regular" site:

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
var links = new Array();
links[0]="http://www.site1.com";
links[1]="http://www.site2.com";
links[2]="http://www.site3.com";   
links[3]="http://www.site4.com";
links[4]="http://www.site5.com";

function getRandomLink() {
	var randomNum = Math.floor(Math.random()*links.length);
	window.location = links[randomNum];
}
//--></script>
</head>

<body>
<form name="" action="">
<input type="button" value="Click Here!" onclick="getRandomLink()" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

Hope that helps,
Mark

SurfSmarter · « **Reply #2 on:** March 31, 2011, 12:38:13 PM »

Thanks Mark

Will try this on the weekend.

John

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