need help on wordpress customization

[Optic]

It might be useful to checkout the `Hello Dolly` plugin that comes with WP. It prints a line from the song randomly.

Here's how Matt did it:

function hello_dolly_get_lyric() {
    /** These are the lyrics to Hello Dolly */
    $lyrics = "Hello, Dolly
Well, hello, Dolly
It's so nice to have you back where you belong
You're lookin' swell, Dolly
I can tell, Dolly
You're still glowin', you're still crowin'
You're still goin' strong
We feel the room swayin'
While the band's playin'
One of your old favourite songs from way back when
So, take her wrap, fellas
Find her an empty lap, fellas
Dolly'll never go away again
Hello, Dolly
Well, hello, Dolly
It's so nice to have you back where you belong
You're lookin' swell, Dolly
I can tell, Dolly
You're still glowin', you're still crowin'
You're still goin' strong
We feel the room swayin'
While the band's playin'
One of your old favourite songs from way back when
Golly, gee, fellas
Find her a vacant knee, fellas
Dolly'll never go away
Dolly'll never go away
Dolly'll never go away again";

    // Here we split it into lines
    $lyrics = explode( "\n", $lyrics );

    // And then randomly choose a line
    return wptexturize( $lyrics[ mt_rand( 0, count( $lyrics ) - 1 ) ] );
} 

[avmood]

You can also use a javascript rotate.
<script type="text/javascript">
var adblock=new Array()
adblock[0]='<img src="images/1.png" />'
adblock[1]='<img src="images/2.png" />'
adblock[2]='<img src="images/3.png" />'
function randomorder(targetarray, spacing) {
var randomorder=new Array()
var the_one
var z=2
for (i=0;i<targetarray.length;i++)
randomorder[i]=i

while (z<targetarray.length) {
the_one=Math.floor(Math.random()*targetarray.lengt h)
if (targetarray[the_one]!="_selected!"){
document.write(targetarray[the_one]+spacing)
targetarray[the_one]="_selected!"
z++
}
}
}
</script>

[weegillis]

@avmood, I don't believe the OP is about client side rotation, but server side. There is only ever one image served to the client in what we're referring to above. Your script is pointless to this cause. Next time, please read the thread.

[Ed Brown]

i know it's been awhile since this topic was touched, but for future searchers of info I thought I would include some insight here. There is a plug-in called "Ad Codes" for wordpress which Supports AdSense®, Javascript, XHTML and PHP code.The best part is that you can rotate endless numbers of ads(or photos, if you prefer, or whatever you wish, the plug in is extremely versatile) within the widget using the <!--rotate--> command.

i'm not positive, but i suspect the widget could be hard coded into the functions.php file and placed anywhere you wished for the images/ads, etc to appear.