Random image rotator using javascript

[tamlyn]

I need to display an image that changes every x seconds. The images are randomly selected from a directory on the server. I don't want any javascript in the page body and preferably none in the page at all (i.e. all in an external script). I would also like to be able to have several such images on the same page and each have a different delay. I need to make a plugin or module but I just can't work out how to set it up.

I thought of storing the images as a list in the source and using css and javascript to make them look like just one image but that seems a bit messy and I'd rather it degraded to a single static image than to a list of images (the actual images aren't that important).

Any better ideas?

[Elijah Lofgren]

Maybe one of these would be useful?
Random Image: http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/rndimg/
Multiple random image: http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/multi-rand-img/

[tamlyn]

No I need to use javascript to change the image every x seconds, like a slideshow.

Currently I'm leaning towards using ajax to fetch an xml file from the server (most likely php generated) which specifies the files to use in the slideshow. But I haven't really done much javascripting for a while now so it's quite slow work.

[Dr.CSS]

have you looked at www.dynamicdrive.com/ lots of nice JS there

  mark

[alby]

No I need to use javascript to change the image every x seconds, like a slideshow.

Currently I'm leaning towards using ajax to fetch an xml file from the server (most likely php generated) which specifies the files to use in the slideshow. But I haven't really done much javascripting for a while now so it's quite slow work.

Maybe my plugin Image Rotator.
It's based on www.dynamicdrive.com

Alby

[tamlyn]

Thanks alby - dunno how I missed that on my initial search. It works really well and it's neat from a cms point of view though the code it creates isn't so nice (i.e. having js in the page source). But I reckon I can live with that for the time being cheers!