fun website snippets!

I've been on free hosting for a long time which really prevented the growth of my site. Back on 000webhost and especially Neocities, I was always running into a barrier somewhere.

But on paid hosting, you get a lot more freedom, such as the ability to use PHP scripts which helped add more functionality to my website while keeping it functional on very old browsers.

I tend to use PHP and JS together, but PHP whenever I can since I like to ensure somewhat compatile with non-JS browsers. So here are a couple of PHP and JS scripts that I have made over time for this site.

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banner rotator

I dunno if you've noticed (from some feedback, apparently most people don't), but every time you load powerdvd3000, you see one of 18 randomly picked banners!

<?php
$get = rand(1,18);

echo '<img width="586" height="92" alt="PowerDVD3000" id="banner" name="randimg" src="/images/index/banner' . $get . '.gif">';
?>

And with that, every time you load the page, a different image is chosen. I also like to have a "change banner" button so that people can see the banners without wasting my bandwidth by refresing the page hundreds of times, so to accomplish this, I reused the original javascript from my pre-PHP banner rotator.

<script>
function pickimg2() {
document.randimg.src = 'images/index/banner' + Math.floor((Math.random() * 12) + 1) + '.gif';
}
</script>

<button onclick="pickimg2()">change banner</button>

So ya just click the button to pick a new banner! I pulled this out of the archives again when a "banner change button" idea crossed my mind.

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random pages suggestion

This website has gotten to the size where it's kind hard to find stuff that might stand out to you, so I added a random page picker with some "interesting" titles so you can find something you might find cool!

Instead of making a massive PHP script full of lines, instead I used a text file of lines, which is slightly more convenient. I keep it here, and it's easy to add to when I add a new page.

<?php

$path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$path .= "/inc/more.txt";

$array = file("$path");

$message1 = array_rand($array);
$message2 = array_rand($array);
$message3 = array_rand($array);
$message4 = array_rand($array);
$message5 = array_rand($array);

echo $array[$message1] . '<br>' . $array[$message2] . '<br>' . $array[$message3] . '<br>' . $array[$message4] . '<br>' . $array[$message5];
?>

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random page NOW button

Here's another idea that I got, what if there was a random page button, but instead of hand picked pages like the suggestions thing, it literally just opens a 100% random page? So I made this thing that gets a completey random page right from sitemap.xml (which is auto-generated)

function randy() {
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
var xmlDoc = this.responseXML;
var locs = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("loc");
var randomLoc = locs[Math.floor(Math.random() * locs.length)];
window.location.href = (randomLoc.textContent);
}
};
xhttp.open("GET", "/nav/sitemap.xml", true);
xhttp.send();
}

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rainbow changing text

Or, text changing between whatever colors you want them to be! I used this for the logo on the good-net. This uses CSS animation.

#rainbow { animation: rainbow 6s linear 0s infinite;}
@keyframes rainbow {from {color: #6666ff;} 10% {color: #0099ff;} 50% {color: #00ff00;} 75% {color: #ff3399;} 100% {color: #6666ff;}}