Question

The main idea is this:

I’ll store some images on the server and have a list of them. Then when an user requests a particular image, let’s say “lakes.png”, I want to be able to return a random image from the lakes list/array, but I’m totally clueless about how to detect a request to that particular file and call the function that selects a random file before displaying it to the user.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

rewrite the request using .htaccess, e.g.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(\w+)\.png$ image.php?name=$1 [L]

So requesting lakes.png would be redirected to image.php?name=lakes