I recently had the need to rotate some text in a cms site, I used this script, based on a PHP array and some Javascript functions, for the CMS I adapted the script to use a mysql_fetch_array to get the results, in the following script I have shown a php array()

<script language="JavaScript1.2">
/*
Rotating HTML Block using PHP and JavaScript - Based on a Modified version of JavaScript by Narayan Chand Thakur "http://ncthakur.itgo.com/"
PHP aspect developed by R.Sussex - http://myspaza.co.uk and http://designbysilverside.co.uk
This may be used freely as long as this message is intact.
*/
<?
// first create some PHP variables for script config

 // delay in seconds
 $delay = 3;

 // create an array of html (Note: this could also be done by using a mysql_fetch_array();
 $html = array('<h1>HTML Block 1</h1>',
     '<a href="http://myspaza.co.uk">A Html Link</a>',
     '<img src="http://myspaza.co.uk/img/myspaza_how_to_logo.gif" alt="MySpaza Logo" />',
     '<h1>HTML Block 4</h1>');

?>

 var delay =<? print $delay; ?>*1000;
 var item=new Array()
<?
// loop throug $html[] to get values
 $i=0;
 $count=count($html);
 while($i<$count) {
// create the javascript variables
 
 // create content and add some slashes so javascript doesnt complain
 $content = addslashes($html[$i]);
 
 print 'item['.$i.']="'.$content.'"
 ';
 
$i++;
} ?>

 var current=0
 
 var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all

 function changeItem(){
  if(document.layers){
   document.layer1.document.write(item[current])
   document.layer1.document.close()
  }
  if(ns6)document.getElementById("div1").innerHTML=item[current]
  {
   if(document.all){
    div1.innerHTML=item[current]
   }
  }
   if (current==<?=$count; ?>) current=0
   else current++
   setTimeout("changeItem()",delay)
 }

 window.onload=changeItem

</script>

<layer id="layer1" left="210" top="250"></layer>
<div id="div1" style="height:200px;">
</div>

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