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This banner rotator is a little bit different from others, the banner will change
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only ones a day. I used the php function rand() because I think that MySQL's "ORDER BY RAND()" and the php function array_rand() are only a second choice.
<?php
mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "password");
mysql_select_db("database_name");
// create table for the banners
mysql_query("
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `banners` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name` varchar(35) NOT NULL default '',
`link` varchar(150) NOT NULL default '',
`alt_title` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '',
`image` varchar(35) NOT NULL default '',
`ins_date` date NOT NULL default '0000-00-00',
`status` enum('on','off') NOT NULL default 'on',
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) TYPE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=1");
// create the table for storing todays banner id
mysql_query("
CREATE TABLE `rand_banner` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`date` date NOT NULL default '0000-00-00',
`todays_id` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) TYPE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=1");
// first check if todays banner id is already stored
$check_today_sql = "SELECT todays_id FROM rand_banner WHERE date = NOW()";
$check_today_res = mysql_query($check_today_sql);
if (mysql_num_rows($check_today_res) > 0) {
$id_today = mysql_result($check_today_res, 0, "todays_id");
} else {
// if not select a random id and store the id in the table with current date
$get_ids_sql = "SELECT id FROM banners WHERE status = 'on'";
$get_ids_res = mysql_query($get_ids_sql);
$get_ids_array = array();
while ($get_ids = mysql_fetch_object($get_ids_res)) {
$get_ids_array[] = $get_ids->id;
}
$num = count($get_ids_array);
// I use the function rand() because other random functions are not "really random"
$rand_num = rand(0, $num-1);
$id_today = $get_ids_array[$rand_num];
mysql_query("INSERT INTO rand_banner (id, date, todays_id) VALUES (NULL, NOW(), $id_today)");
}
// at least select the record with the todays ID
$result = mysql_query("SELECT link AS url, alt_title, image FROM banners WHERE id = $id_today");
$obj = mysql_fetch_object($result);
// this example will show the current banner
echo "<a href=\"".$obj->url."\"><img src=\"/images/banners/".$obj->image."\" alt=\"".$obj->alt_title."\" border=\"0\"></a>";
?>
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