Random page generator

**chrisb** · 06-22-2005, 05:19 AM

Hi Guys,

On my site I want to have a script so that when you go to www.nameofmysite.com the script in that< head> loads in a random page.

ie, when I go to www.nameofmysite.com it could load:

either
www.nameofmysite.com/page1.html
or
www.nameofmysite.com/page2.html
or
www.nameofmysite.com/page3.html

Is there a script that does this. I know it can be done with one image using javascript, but I want it to call a random page, not just images?

Can anyone point me in the right direction or post a url to a script?

Thanks

Chris

**Skorch** · 06-28-2005, 07:30 PM

Could you just find a random image script and replace the filename.jpg with pagename.html? It should work!

**Christopher** · 06-28-2005, 07:38 PM

You can't really do it with Javascript, but you can emulate it by randomly selecting a URL and then redirecting the user to that page.

**Phaedrus** · 06-28-2005, 11:23 PM

Here's an example, modifying some of Chroder's code from another post:

Code:

<html> 
  <head>
    <script> 
      var url1 = "http://www.google.com";
      var url2 = "http://www.microsoft.com";
      var url3 = "http://www.webmaster-talk.com";
		 
      var urlArray = [url1, url2, url3]; 
      var rand = Math.round(Math.random() * (urlArray.length - 1) ); 
      var redirectURL = urlArray[rand];
		
      window.location = redirectURL;
    </script> 
  </head> 
  <body>

    <p>
      Here's some text that shouldn't ever be seen, except of course by people who don't have JavaScript-enabled browsers.
    </p>

  </body> 
</html>