Help Refreshing Ad Rotater

Hello. I have this code and basically what I want is that when it randomly selects to use ads_2.inc, I want to let ads_2.inc refresh once every 10 sec. Now I tried inserting a meta refresh tag into the ads_2.inc file but then sometimes it refreshes to a different ad which I do not want. Can anyone help?

Thanks


<?
srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);

$randomnumber = rand(0,7);

$include0 = "ads/ads_1.inc";
$include1 = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include2 = "ads/ads_3.inc";
$include3 = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include4 = "ads/ads_1.inc";
$include5 = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include6 = "ads/ads_1.inc";
$include7 = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include8 = "ads/ads_1.inc";

if ($randomnumber== "0") {
include ("$include0");

} else if ($randomnumber== "1") {
print("$include1");

} else if ($randomnumber== "2") {
include("$include2");

} else if ($randomnumber== "3") {
include("$include3");

} else if ($randomnumber== "4") {
include("$include4");

} else if ($randomnumber== "5") {
include("$include5");

} else if ($randomnumber== "6") {
include("$include6");

} else if ($randomnumber== "7") {
include("$include7");

} else if ($randomnumber== "8") {
include("$include8");

} else {

echo ("ERROR: A random num is being generated out of range, or not at all ");
}
?>

main file

<?
if( !isset($_REQUEST['refresh']) || $_REQUEST['refresh'] == '0' ){
srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);

$randomnumber = rand(0,7);
$include = array();
$include[0] = "ads/ads_1.inc";
$include[1] = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include[2] = "ads/ads_3.inc";
$include[3] = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include[4] = "ads/ads_1.inc";
$include[5] = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include[6] = "ads/ads_1.inc";
$include[7] = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include[8] = "ads/ads_1.inc";

if( ($randomnumber >= 0) && ($randomnumber <= 8) ){
include($include[$randomnumber]);
}
}
?>


now when you refresh the page using the meta tags just refresh the page loading it with

www.yoursite.com/yourpage.php?refresh=1

and when you want the add to rotate

www.yoursite.com/yourpage.php
or
www.yoursite.com/yourpage.php?refresh=0

Thanks but only thing is that it doesnt refresh. Could there be something wrong?

EDIT: nvm I got it.
Thanks

$randomnumber = mt_rand(0,7);
$include = array();
$include[0] = "ads/ads_1.inc";
$include[1] = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include[2] = "ads/ads_3.inc";
$include[3] = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include[4] = "ads/ads_1.inc";
$include[5] = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include[6] = "ads/ads_1.inc";
$include[7] = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include[8] = "ads/ads_1.inc";

if($randomnumber == 0 || $randomnumber <= count($include)) ){
include($include[$randomnumber]);
}
}

?>


That edit will give you less to edit if you take away array values, or add new ones, so you don't have to edit anything but the array.

and you might look into array_rand() (http://php.net/array_rand)

<?php
$include = array();
$include[] = "ads/ads_1.inc";
$include[] = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include[] = "ads/ads_3.inc";
$include[] = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include[] = "ads/ads_1.inc";
$include[] = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include[] = "ads/ads_1.inc";
$include[] = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include[] = "ads/ads_1.inc";

include($include[array_rand($include)]);

?>

<?php
$include = array();
$include[] = "ads/ads_1.inc";
$include[] = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include[] = "ads/ads_3.inc";
$include[] = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include[] = "ads/ads_1.inc";
$include[] = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include[] = "ads/ads_1.inc";
$include[] = "ads/ads_2.inc";
$include[] = "ads/ads_1.inc";

include($include[array_rand($include)]);

?>

See, it is allot more simple with array_rand(), its also quite usefull since manipulating random array results the long way just takes up more time and may not be as fast.

Only problem with that is unless you want more code then you might take out the last array result because it doesn't look like you were using it.

you are all focusing on cleaning up the array - the problem was with the refreshing.

I suggest you use url variables.

so....



if(isset($_REQUEST['ad']) && ($_REQUEST['ad'] == 0 || $_REQUEST['ad'] < count($includes))){

include($includes[$_REQUEST['ad']]);

} else {

run the random add select code

}



then in the meta tag - when you refresh

call

myPage.php?ad=(Array key for said ad)
*without the perenthesis.

Yes, we were adding alternate advice for functionality, and quicker parsing.