In your index.php for your template, you can OVERRIDE the image attribute (or any attribute of any CSS element) for your pages by acting on the value of
getenv("REQUEST_URI")

(for THIS page you are viewing, getenv("REQUEST_URI") should be


It looks that way because SEF URL rewriting is in place. Regardless, in either situation, you would see if "com_smf" is IN getenv("REQUEST_URI") and set your image background accordingly!

As a matter of fact, why limit yourself to an image switch? you could logically switch all kinds of stuff around, colors, font size, javascript: you name it!

EXAMPLE:

(or the echo statement may be somewhere else, depending on how you have the template code done, and then you would have something like..



let us know how you make out!


*by that I mean, let us know the success you have with the technique, not your "make out skills"!

what exactly do you mean? unless you exert your psychic powers, how else are you going to change it if not through code?

maybe if you specify exactly what you want to do and how you want it to happen?

taking a wild guess, lets say you want a gallery type response where people click on a button and they see an appropriate image in your DIV, then you could have several buttons

[btn 1] On click div1.innerhtml='<img src="image1.jpg">'
[btn 2] On click div1.innerhtml='<img src="image2.jpg">'
[btn 2] On click div1.innerhtml='<h1>No Image! just a big heading!</h1>'

that way you update the image or contents of the div based on user input.


What if you just want to display a RANDOM image each time? without having to tell the code to display an image??


then in that case, you will have a folder for your images, read the directory to get a count of images in there, then use a random function to choose a particular image.