Animated .GIFs question

**Dale Hubbard** · 09-22-2005, 10:21 AM

Is is possible to have animated gifs, where the link target changes through each rotation of the image?

Example: The gif shows an ad. It has a target link. Then the animation moves on to the next frame (given, say x seconds) and the target link changes.

Or is this Flash only or even Java?

Also, forgetting graphics, could this be done with text links at all? Via PHP perhaps?

Thanks!

**DNGeeks** · 09-22-2005, 11:09 AM

No. This can only be done in flash (possibly java too). A gif cannot have a url embedded in it which would be required to do what you're asking.

For text links, and the gif above, you may be able to do it with a script that would time itself and change the URL's. This might work well in theory, but may not work well in practice, I've never tried it.

**Dale Hubbard** · 09-22-2005, 11:24 AM

Thanks DNGeeks. Anyone else tried to do something similar to this?

**DogFaceBoy** · 09-22-2005, 11:24 AM

There are simple PHP scripts that will do this though. But won't be a .gif animation, they will all have to be separate images.

**ForumDomains** · 09-22-2005, 03:25 PM

You should search for a image scheduling script not for animated gifs with different links!

**Gray** · 09-26-2005, 06:05 AM

I've done stuff like this in javascript using innerHTML, not too hard.

<body onload="animate()">
<div id="thegif">
</div>

<script>
frame = 1
function animate() {
if (frame==1) document.getElementById("thegif").innerHTML = "<a href='target1.html'><img src='img1.gif' border=0></a>"
if (frame==2) document.getElementById("thegif").innerHTML = "<a href='target2.html'><img src='img2.gif' border=0></a>"
frame++
if (frame > 2) frame=1
timerx = setTimeout("animate()", 2000)
}
</script>
</body>