What I should do to make a html file load different page every time the user open it?

Question

This is the content of my html file :

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://google.com" />

So, when the user open it, it will be redirected to google.. But what I want is write a script inside the file that can change the url/the page that will be loaded every time the user open it.

Example: first time open google second time open facebook and then, start over.. open google, and so on.

Any idea please how can I do that?

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 15 '18 at 13:02

you could create an array of the urls you require and then use a random number generator to pick one from the array.

<?php
    $urls = array(
      'http://www.facebook.com',
      'http://www.google.com');

    $i = rand(1, (sizeof($urls) - 1));
?>

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=<?php echo urls[$i] ?>" />

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 15 '18 at 13:00

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You can use $pagename variable inside <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=$pagename" /> So the $pagename can be generated from an array list which have multiple pages and randomizing the value you may got the random page.

answered Sep 15 '18 at 13:00

Jagadish Dulal

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 15 '18 at 13:08

You could randomly select a page in the Javascript but if you want to actually guarantee that it's a different page then you need to create a SESSION so that you can recognize the same visitor again and send them to a different place. As you tagged this PHP, you could do something like this:

<?php

$urls = array(
    'http://google.com',
    'http://yahoo.com',
    'http://bing.com');

session_start();
if(!isset($_SESSION['urlNumber'])) {
    $_SESSION['urlNumber'] = 0;
} else {
    $_SESSION['urlNumber']++;
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=<?php echo($urls[$_SESSION['urlNumber']]); ?>" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

What this does is start a session for each visitor and keep track of which URLs they have gone through by incrementing the session variable on each subsequent visit.

Note, it's not a very good approach. You'd be better sending a HTTP_REDIRECT response from the server. Also, it will break after three URLs because it's run out. You'd want to put a little code in there to reset it back to 0 once it reached the maximum URLs. But that is in line with your approach that you wanted to use.

it's exactly the idea that I looking for, but sadly it's not working .. I don't know why! the link become like this:file:///C:/..../....../Desktop/%3C?%20echo($urls[$_SESSION[%27urlNumber%27]]);%20?%3E — Dev, Sep 15 '18 at 13:41

What I should do to make a html file load different page every time the user open it?

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