Comments on: Ordered Image and Background Switcher Using PHP & jQuery

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:54:19 +0000

Thank you for this great post, That’s exactly what i was looking for. only one question, can i have this code to work for a container with a background image using css. Thanks again for sharing this clean piece of code.

By: Amber Weinberg

Amber Weinberg — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:46:32 +0000

No, this code is only meant for background images.

By: Harald

Harald — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:42:12 +0000

Thanks for this great code. It works like a charm, but as usual one would always want to do a little more. So do I. Is there any possibility to add a link to each image?
Thanks again for charing this code.

By: Amber

Amber — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:21:59 +0000

@BigAB Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll keep that in mind

By: BigAB

BigAB — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:47:18 +0000

Hey,
Small thing but I wouldn’t use a global variable with such a common name as “count” just to prevent caching. You never know where someone is going to forget to add a “var” or something and get strange bugs they can’t figure out because of that global setting of count (this happens more than you’d think) or various other things that can happen if you mix scripts from other people into your sites and keep adding global scope variables.

Because I don’t see “q” being used anywhere in the PHP I’ll assume it’s just there to prevent the caching so you’d be better off using something this
[pre]
$(document).ready(function() {
$(“#nextButton”).click(function(e) {
$(“#rotateBkg”).attr({src : “”});
$(“#rotateBkg”).attr({src : “/images/bkg/rotate.php?q=” + Math.random()});
});
});
[/pre]

…also I don’t know if there’s a reason to clear the src before changing it, so you could probably lose that line too (though I didn’t test it, so try it out I suppose).

If you need an other “programming friend” just email, though due to my job I am specialized in front end (JavaScript and CSS). love the site and the blog, keep cranking it out, it’s good stuff.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:37:53 +0000

@envyeconomy (Mike)

Its always nice that once you work on a project, you share. Very appreciated.

about.com has some code similar as well. I like how customizable your code is, Theirs is more random.

Excellent post.