Here is the php code. It grabs the last 100 posts and puts them in an array, from which, a random image is selected and used as the background image.

<?php

// Load the Tumblr feed (photos only in this case) into a simplexml document
$url = "http://gomako.tumblr.com/api/read?type=photo&num=100";
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);

// Loop through the images and add them to an array
foreach($xml--->posts-&gt;post as $post){
$bgImgs[] = $post-&gt;{'photo-url'}[0];
}

// Pick a random image out of the array.
$bgimg = $bgImgs[array_rand($bgImgs)];

// Get image width and height for script
list($imgwidth, $imgheight, $type, $attr) = getimagesize($bgimg);

?>

Now we need to pass the image details to the fullscreenr jQuery plugin. I have altered the script slightly to get it to work how I wanted. You can grab my copy here.

<!-- Load JQuery -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script><!-- Load the Fullscreenr plugin --><script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.fullscreenr.js"></script></code>

<script type="text/javascript">

// Specify the size of your background image here
var FullscreenrOptions = { width: <?php echo $imgwidth; ?>, height: <?php echo $imgheight; ?>, bgID: '#bgimg' };

// This will activate the full screen background!
jQuery.fn.fullscreenr(FullscreenrOptions);

</script>

Now you need to include this directly under the opening body tag

<!-- This is the background image -->
<img id="bgimg" src="<?php echo $bgimg; ?>"/>

That should be it!

]]> http://gomako.co.uk/main/2009/11/01/scary-pony/feed/ 0 http://gomako.co.uk/main/2009/10/11/tumblr-account/ http://gomako.co.uk/main/2009/10/11/tumblr-account/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:25:42 +0000 admin http://gomako.co.uk/main/?p=42 So, I got myself a Tumblr account while I wait for my Dropular invite to arrive, so’s I can just bung crap out there that I haven’t done myself that I think is fancy pants.

The only fly in the ointment was our glorious government charging us AS MUCH AGAIN AS THE FABRIC COST IN IMPORT DUTY. Thanks guys.