UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming PHP and Server-side Scripting rotate an include file within header.php

Hi Gurus,

I am looking on how to approach the following problem but I am surely not a php guru.

In my header file i have an include to a striped out version of the shout which shows up on all pages.
Now I want to replace this file like once out of 10 with a different include which could contain an add or a special message or ... well options are unlimited.

How could I proceed with this without creating a huge overhead on the site.

Anyone a clue ?

Greetz
Boris

Checkout my banner rotator mod in the beta mods forum here.

It basically rotates a random thread from a particular forum. You could put whatever you wanted in the threads....doesn't have to be banners.

Thanks Josh,

But I think that wont really do it for me ...
The thing is we are experimenting with these long kind of banners size 120 x 600 and they fit perfectly in the left bar which is include in my header file ...

so in the header I have

<?
echo "

<BR>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
";
include ("/home/sites/site3/web/forum/younameit.php");
echo "

where the younameit.php is the sjout which my users like a lot and I would like to rotate the include in a predefined ratio so they get spooked once every 10 or 20 times with one of these long banners as not to upset them too much ...

any possibilities ?

the problem is that my younameit.php not any static text is which i can include in a forum.

Greetz,
Boris

You could include my random thing anywhere you want. My isntructions call for it to be included in ubbt.inc.php before the header I think.... but you could include that script from anywhere....

Just use the script name in your include, and customize the hidden form to whatever you need.

the trick would be including the shoutbox I guess.

But it would be doable. I guess you'd need a bit of code in ubbt.inc.php to determine if it's going to display the the shoutbox... or once every 10 times or so, display a random banner in that space instead.

It could be done.

Thanks ... gonna try ...

Boris