Banner Advert Rotation With PHP

A normal procedure with banner adverts is to rotate them randomly, but also to display some more than others. Lets say that you had 3 banner adds and that you wanted to display them at different rates. To do this you can use the rand() function to generate a random number that can then be used to see what banner advert will be displayed.

First we generate the random number, in our case it is between 1 and 100.

$number = rand(1, 100);

You can then use this number to figure out what banner ad to display. Because the random number is between 1 and 100 it is basically a percentage. So you can create a simple if statement that will determine what banner should be displayed.

if ($number 


 


<p>You can then feed this into an image tag or something similar to enable the banner to display.</p>


 


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