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I’ve got a need for an image rotation script - which I can find plenty of, but each image will have an image map with two hot-spots linking to pages deeper within the site.

I can find tools that will allow each image to link to one page, but not more.

Anyone know of anything?

Do you mean rotating on a webpage (different images that come by)
or do you mean rotate the image X degrees?

The first should be easy with mootools.net (javascript)
make a DIV and replace the HTML in that DIV 😊
The second requires MATH skills and some php

The first - basically along the lines of a banner ad rotator, except that each image has two hotspots that link to different pages.  I can find all kinds of scripts that provide for linking the entire image to one page.  I’ll look at mootools, thanks.

Hmm…not seeing anything ready-made at mootools…or did you mean it provided a framework to code something on my own?  Really not looking to invest that kind of time in it.

Unless I’m missing it and you have a link?

Is the data loaded once (many elements in javascript)?
then you could rotate them with a chain
take a look at these demo’s
http://demos.mootools.net/Periodical
http://demos.mootools.net/Chain.Periodical
http://demos.mootools.net/Chain

You could also do a (periodical) ajax-load
and replace the HTML of an element
http://demos.mootools.net/Ajax

It took me some time to dive into this ajax and mootools thing
but succeeded in making a movieplayer-window with an accordion
category-filelist and an ajax-div that loads a swf-player and
description in about a afternoon. (just a matter of taste, some
people like jQuery or prototype more)

take a peek at this excellent tutorial page by CNET
http://clientside.cnet.com/wiki/beginnersguide.html
the last (bottom of page) has a image carrousell

Thanks again…

I was really hoping for something ready-made—not sure it’s worth that much time to custom-program. I can probably find a different design direction if that’s the case….

I’m not entirely certain what your requirements are. But have a look at the following tool called jCarusel lite.

It’s pre-requirements are jQuery
The “light” refers to the fact its only 2kb (for the price of leaving out AJAX lazy loading)
I think it was meant more as an image rotator, but it can be set to auto rotate or use external controls. It also takes html instead of just images , so you should be able to use imagemaps.

The full version of jcarousel does all the same including AJAX calls, skins etc. but weighs in quite a bit more.

Questions regarding jQuery are best directed to: jQ Google groups

And if you need some really fancy change over effects to go along with that have a look at: the jQuery Cycle Plugin

Enjoy!

It probably depends on the specifics of what, exactly, you are trying to do, but is there a way you could let ee handle it? For example, each imagemap could be a weblog entry with custom fields for the links and image and coordinates, if necessary; and then you could just embed a random entry from the imagemap weblog?

That was my initial thought also Aircrash. Boyink, would that work or are there other extenuatiing circumstances?

Edit-Add: I do wish EE had a step-through function in addition to random. Similar to the old pBlocks in pMachinePro.

The images can’t be random, they have to be serial and change without refreshing the page.

I was thinking of the old pBlock functionality as well Randy - isn’t it funny that there was one thing pMPro did that EE doesn’t natively do?  😉

I got tied up with Forum formatting yesterday - I’m going to take a close look at the other options mentioned in this thread today.

OK, nevermind on this one.  I managed to talk the client out of the two links per image direction which opens up other alternatives like Monoslideshow.

Thanks!