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Simple PHP ad banner / image rotator

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Pull banner ad or image code from a given text file into an array and randomize the order. Banner/image codes in the file should be separated by tildes (~).

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function initializeAds($file) {
  $fcontents = file_get_contents($file);
  $ad_array = explode("~",$fcontents);
  shuffle($ad_array);
 
  return $ad_array;
}
 
$ad_banners = initializeAds('ad_banners.txt');
 
echo $ad_banners[0]; // first randomly ordered banner
echo $ad_banners[1]; // second randomly ordered banner, etc.