On your import url change link to " ("/dynamic_css.php") ".

Your just adding the " / " to it.

With no images the choice is the link to dynamic_css.php is wrong or the link to the images folder is wrong.

i have taken out that line from the css, but now i do have any images

Thanks for any help i dont have that much experience with PHP or CSS

I found the problem: I'm working on a Mac, and the ._header3.jpg is the thumbnail file.

Now the problem should be fixed.

dietmar

#header{ background-image:url(images/random-images/yatch-image-swap-3.jpg)}

Remove that line. Your $element is also " header " in the random php code as seen on this line of your page code

test Site:

http://www.jdwebsolutions-testarea51.com/registerayatch/about-register-a-yacht.html

any help would be great.

Thanks

John

Checked your site again and saw two things.

When the header image fails right click the area and pick " view background image ". The name of the image has changed. Example " header3.jpg " becomes " ._header3.jpg ".

Now your server thinks that is a good file. Just type in

http://www.zonewicz.de/img/random/._header3.jpg

You dont get a 404 error.

Make sure your random image folder only has good image files in it.

I also noticed your element is called " container " and in your css file you also have " #container ". When I did my random images I placed all my css for the random images in the " dynamic_css.php " file on the $css line.

So when you hit the reload button several times, sometimes there is no image loaded by the dynamic_css script.

dietmar

On the first page I did a page source and your " import url to dynamic_css.php " was there in " index2.shtml ".

When your problem occurred, on links, I did a page source and " links.html " was missing the " import url to dynamic_css.php ".

So I went back to your home page, with menu, and did another page source and the file changed to " index.shtml " and it was missing " import url to dynamic_css.php ".

Then I manually went back to " index2.shtml " and all was fine.

It appears only file " index2.shtml " has the import url and some of your other pages dont have it. Plus your home button calls " index.stml " when it should call index2.shtml ".

You need to check you menu links. Plus the " import url " needs to be in all pages where you want to see the random image in header.

Actual testing page:
http://www.zonewicz.de/index2.shtml

Any suggestions.

Very much thx, dietmar

I have a php file wich is a little bit different then this one :

<?php
//Setup
$base_dir= '/srv/www/htdocs';
$out_dir = '/html/pics/backgrounds/';

$img_folder = $base_dir . $out_dir;

//Do the Work
$out = null;

//Search only for *.gif files
$extensions = 'gif';
$extensions = explode('|', $extensions);
$files = array();
if($img_folder == ") {
$img_folder = './';
}
$handle = opendir($img_folder);
while(false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
foreach($extensions as $extension) {
if(preg_match("/\." . $extension . "$/x", $file)) {
$files[] = $file;
$x ;
}
}
}
// Close the directory handle
closedir($handle);
if(phpversion()

I include this file in my index.php at the top( include('path/to/file/random_bg.php'); ).

Then i use this in the of my index.php :

BODY {
background: url("'.$out.'") no-repeat;
background-position: 100% 100%;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-color: #E8E8E8;
font-family: Batang;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 12pt;
}

Note : Everything is still in the and echo ' '; tags.

This way it works for me.