PHP : Shuffle to display different content or advertisement




Problem :

Your website serves advertisement and you are looking for ways to display different images or content each time a page is loaded.

Solution :

  1. Create an array.
  2. Load the array with different HTML codes.
  3. Shuffle the array content and then pick the item 0.

For example :

 <div class="shuffled-content">
 <?php
 $ads = array();

 $ads[] = '<a href="http://www.edu.joshuatly.com/?utm_source=HomeTution&utm_medium=SideBanner&utm_campaign=HomeTutionBanner" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="cursor: pointer" src="https://www.hometuitionjob.com/public/images/ads/edujoshuatly250x250.gif"></a>';

 $ads[] = '<a href="http://www.guru-app.com/?utm_source=HomeTution&utm_medium=SideBanner&utm_campaign=HomeTutionBanner" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="cursor: pointer" src="https://www.hometuitionjob.com/public/images/ads/guru-app250x250.jpg"></a>';

 shuffle($ads);
 echo $ads[0]; 
 ?>
 <span style="font-weight: bold;cursor: pointer;">Advertise here? Email ads@example-ads.com</span>
 </div>

In this way, your website will display the ads on random order each time a page is loaded or refreshed.





By Adam Ng

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