Auto Avatar Changing through Cron?

[kiwi li]

I was looking on different forums and I thought it would be cool to put a randomly changing avatar on there everytime someone reloads. Is there any possible way to make it happen at our cpanel through a cron job or any other possible way?

(I tried linking a php script on there, but most forums only take, gif, jpgs, etc.). ^^

Just a random wacky idea. ^^;;

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Ah, got it working through a php script with a disguised extension of gif. ^^;;

[Gwaihir]

Could an apache rewrite rule perhaps do that? I.e. rewrite "avatar.gif" into a random file name taken from a certain folder?

[Ron]

I'd consider using rewrite to call a script, and have the script return the random file.
in the avatar directory, .htaccess

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^avatarname.gif$ /path/to/randomefilereturner.php

Or some such