So does anyone know how Nathan Malcolm does that random avatar trick. You know that when you view him in a post or profile his avatar keeps changing.
Host a script on your own server that redirects/outputs a random image each time it is loaded.
Set your avatar to point to that script.
I used to use this script, it finds all PNG and GIF images in the avatars folder and redirects to a random one. It also sends a cache header so that users will only see the avatar change once every 30 minutes.
<?php
$folder = 'avatars/';
$settings['img_ext'] = array('.png','.gif');
$flist = array();
foreach($settings['img_ext'] as $ext)
{
$tmp = glob($folder.'*'.$ext);
if (is_array($tmp))
{
$flist = array_merge($flist,$tmp);
}
}
$src = $flist[array_rand($flist)];
$seconds_to_cache = 1800;
$ts = gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s", time() + $seconds_to_cache) . " GMT";
header("Expires: $ts");
header("Pragma: cache");
header("Cache-Control: max-age=$seconds_to_cache");
header('Location:'.$src);
exit();
?>
Hmm thanks , i will put this in my code box.
Matt has this before it was cool. You so hipster you... ^_^
