php Image Display

I am trying to make a header for a Wordpress blog that is made up of 5 random images. I tried getting one of the WP widgets to work and while it did not throw any errors, it didn't display any of the images either.

After spending way too long messing with it, I thought maybe I could do my own thing and come up with exactly what I wanted instead of making something else work.

I think I may have stumbled onto a really slick way to generate the random numbers except my efforts lead to no image being displayed either. lol

So, here's what I've got...

A sub-directory in my theme's directory called random-image. In it are files named 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg etc.

I'm getting a random number ($random_1).

I had hoped I could add on the directory and .jpg extension when making the image display. That didn't seem to work so I created another variable $file_1 and took the random number and added ".jpg" to it. Again, no luck on getting the image to display.

Both $random_1 and $file_1 contain the correct information and the values for both display fine. But, I can't seem to use them to display the images.

My thinking is to do something like this within the <?php     ?>

General random #1.
Create file name #1.
Display image #1.

Generate random #2.
Create file name #2.
Display image #2.

etc.


Ideally, I would like to use the images side by side as my page header so there may need to be divs or spans to format each image so I'm thinking that the images have to be displayed from within the php code.

I have been all over the web and nothing seems to work. I don't know if there's something special I need to do because it's WordPress, the image display code is wrong or I can't build a file name the way I am.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

After walking away for a while and coming back to this it seemed more and more likely that this had to be a Wordpress issue - it is!

Changed my search strategy and quickly found the solution on the wordpress forums - http://wordpress.org/support/topic/278852.

Perhaps my post will help someone else as I've spent way to much time on something that should have been simple.

Ultimately the issue was taking the image display call out of the php and using php within the img tag and using a WP variable for the directory where the template files are located...

<img src="<?php echo bloginfo('template_url'); ?>
/random-image/<?php echo $file_1;?>" alt="something goes here" />

I also get stuck on that header images issue...I made some search and found dynamic header plugin at wordpress...it does have an issue on the image resize..cheers

is $random_1 int variable?

I am a similar problem to them.
I needed to automate the process so that users can upload images to the server and that they appear random in the header, regardless of the image name ...
I used a php script to read the content directory, and for its display random image java script ...

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