How do I make a link change in a page

Hey, this might seem like an easy question but everything I try doesn’t seem to work. I have an image, but I want the link on the image to change on refresh. I want the picture to stay the same but every time the page is refreshed I want the link to change back and forth from one link to another. Kinda like a referral link so you can split it between two people. Thanks for any help!

Could you explain in more detail what you want? From what I can gather, you want to output a random link each time the page refreshes? Try using this PHP :

<?php $rand = rand(0, 1);
$links[0] = "http://google.com";
$links[1] = "http://yahoo.com";
echo '<a href="' . $links[$rand] . '?>Random Link';
?>

It generates a random number between 0 and 1. You create an array containing two values assigned to the 0 and 1 keys.
Depending on what random number is created, the appropriate link is output.

But I’m not too sure if that’s what you’re asking for.

Okay, i’ll give an example. I have an image, let’s say a ThemeForest ad, and I want to put a referral link on this image, but let’s say I have 2 different ThemeForest accounts, and I want both referral links on one image, but I want them to switch back and forth every time the page is refreshed. This is just an example. Hope this makes more since.

In which case the example PHP code I gave will work fine. In your case, it’ll look more like:

<?php $rand = rand(0, 1);
$links[0] = "THEMEFOREST-LINK-1";
$links[1] = "THEMEFOREST-LINK-2";
echo '<a href="' . $links[$rand] . '?><img src="IMAGE" />';
?>

Just fill in the gaps.

Great, it worked. Thanks!

Alex, you coding PHP !?

Technically, that won’t alter every page refresh to the next one, it will just be random. Not to say that your solution doesn’t work just fine Dan

If you truly wanted it to alter every page refresh, just use sessions and increment a variable every refresh, if the variable hits the highest number you want (1 or 2 depending on the links) reset the counter on the session variable.
Like I said, the solution above probably works fine for what you need, just advising to use sessions if you truly want them to alternate in order

Well, yeah, but it seemed too small a thing to store in a session imo. But yeah, if you really needed exactly 50:50, using sessions would be best.

Alex, you coding PHP !?

Yea

Well, yeah, but it seemed too small a thing to store in a session imo. But yeah, if you really needed exactly 50:50, using sessions would be best.

I hope it didn’t seem like I was correcting you, your code works just perfect for this, just wanted to pitch that in there