look 'n' feel based on refferer ID?

[noskill]

Hello all,

As you might have guessed, I'm new to PHP (and coding for that matter)!!!

Wondering if you can help (and determine whether or not I'm totally insane and should give up now!!!;-)

I have a site, and I want it to display different images/look and feel depending on where a visitor comes from; ie which link they clicked.

just wondered if you think it is possible to do the following:

1. Make a site a banner that links to my site, but assigns some kind of ID when the user clicks on it (which they then carry)?

2. Have a section in my main html template that looks at a php script ("image.php" for example)

3. Have "image.php" look at the ID being carried by the user and say something like:

if ID = link1, send <img src="link1pic.jpg>

else send <img src="normalpic.jpg>

Thus the site will look different depending on where they come from.

Is that a vague possibility, or am I basically profoundly dumb?

Any help/advice would be muchly appreciated 😕

Cheers

[bastien]

yes you are on the right track...can use cookies to mark a users comp and look for that whenever a page loads...or use sessions to maintain the value...

[noskill]

Ah ha, so I'm not crazy then.

If I managed to get some cookie code. Could I put the section that looks to image.php exactly where I want it to show the image eg:

<table>
<tr>
<td>
<?php> image.php</?php>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

And then, rather than have a database, literally just have the image.php script say:

If session ID = link1

send (I think that's echo isn't it?) <img src="image1.jpg>

else

echo <img src="normal.jpg>

Is that poss??