i'm looking create apache site using php each time person directs it, grab random image created imgur album full of images , display image onload without ever leaving website. thinking need use imgur api make sort of thing php don't know start. know how may able this?
i made javascript alternative using arrays fetches images listed in javascript code, make use of imgur api , automatically fetch images' urls imgur album , randomly pick 1 display every time user loads webpage.
<!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>random</title> <script type="text/javascript"> function randomlinks(){ var myrandom=math.round(math.random()*263) var links=new array() links[0]="http://i.imgur.com/blablablabla.jpg" window.location=links[myrandom] } </script> </head> <body onload="randomlinks()"> </body> </html>
this json returned album using imgur api, can transform json array within php , use array_rand() select random one:
{ "data": { "id": "ldrb2", "title": "imgur office", "description": null, "datetime": 1357856292, "cover": "24nlu", "account_url": "alan", "account_id": 4, "privacy": "public", "layout": "blog", "views": 13780, "link": "http://alanbox.imgur.com/a/ldrb2", "images_count": 11, "images": [ { "id": "24nlu", "title": null, "description": null, "datetime": 1357856352, "type": "image/jpeg", "animated": false, "width": 2592, "height": 1944, "size": 855658, "views": 135772, "bandwidth": 116174397976, "link": "http://i.imgur.com/24nlu.jpg" }, { "id": "ziz25", "title": null, "description": null, "datetime": 1357856394, "type": "image/jpeg", "animated": false, "width": 2592, "height": 1944, "size": 919391, "views": 135493, "bandwidth": 124571044763, "link": "http://i.imgur.com/ziz25.jpg" }, { "id": "9tzw6", "title": null, "description": null, "datetime": 1357856385, "type": "image/jpeg", "animated": false, "width": 2592, "height": 1944, "size": 655028, "views": 135063, "bandwidth": 88470046764, "link": "http://i.imgur.com/9tzw6.jpg" }, { "id": "dfg5u", "title": null, "description": null, "datetime": 1357856378, "type": "image/jpeg", "animated": false, "width": 2592, "height": 1944, "size": 812738, "views": 134704, "bandwidth": 109479059552, "link": "http://i.imgur.com/dfg5u.jpg" }, { "id": "oknlx", "title": null, "description": null, "datetime": 1357856338, "type": "image/jpeg", "animated": false, "width": 1749, "height": 2332, "size": 717324, "views": 32938, "bandwidth": 23627217912, "link": "http://i.imgur.com/oknlx.jpg" }, { "id": "ol6tc", "title": null, "description": null, "datetime": 1357856321, "type": "image/jpeg", "animated": false, "width": 2592, "height": 1944, "size": 1443262, "views": 32346, "bandwidth": 46683752652, "link": "http://i.imgur.com/ol6tc.jpg" }, { "id": "cj9cm", "title": null, "description": null, "datetime": 1357856330, "type": "image/jpeg", "animated": false, "width": 2592, "height": 1944, "size": 544702, "views": 31829, "bandwidth": 17337319958, "link": "http://i.imgur.com/cj9cm.jpg" }, { "id": "7btpn", "title": null, "description": null, "datetime": 1357856369, "type": "image/jpeg", "animated": false, "width": 2592, "height": 1944, "size": 844863, "views": 31257, "bandwidth": 26407882791, "link": "http://i.imgur.com/7btpn.jpg" }, { "id": "42ib8", "title": null, "description": null, "datetime": 1357856424, "type": "image/jpeg", "animated": false, "width": 2592, "height": 1944, "size": 905073, "views": 30945, "bandwidth": 28007483985, "link": "http://i.imgur.com/42ib8.jpg" }, { "id": "bbwix", "title": null, "description": null, "datetime": 1357856360, "type": "image/jpeg", "animated": false, "width": 1749, "height": 2332, "size": 662413, "views": 30107, "bandwidth": 19943268191, "link": "http://i.imgur.com/bbwix.jpg" }, { "id": "x7b91", "title": null, "description": null, "datetime": 1357856406, "type": "image/jpeg", "animated": false, "width": 1944, "height": 2592, "size": 618567, "views": 29259, "bandwidth": 18098651853, "link": "http://i.imgur.com/x7b91.jpg" } ] }, "success": true, "status": 200 } more information in imgur api documentation
being $json string coming imgur servers, code gather random link:
$array=json_decode($json); $links = array(); foreach($array->data->images $img) $links[]=$img->link; echo $links[array_rand($links)]; 
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