#!/usr/bin/perl -wT use CGI qw(:standard); use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser); use Fcntl qw(:flock :seek); use strict; print header; # some definitions... my(@ad_ids) = (); # array for ALL ad ids my(@ok_ads) = (); # array for ads that haven't exceeced the max count my(%data) = (); # hash for storing the raw data open(F,"+<addata.txt") or &dienice("Can't open data file: $!"); flock(F,LOCK_EX); # exclusive lock seek(F,0,SEEK_SET); # rewind to beginning of file while (my $line = <F>) { chomp($line); my($id,$img,$url,$alt,$max,$count) = split(/\|/,$line); $data{$id} = $line; push(@ad_ids,$id); if ($count < $max) { push(@ok_ads,$id); } } # pick a random ID# my $pick = $ok_ads[int(rand(@ok_ads))]; if ($pick < 0) { # there's been some problem. Abort. exit; } # split the ad data line again and print out the ad my($id,$img,$url,$alt,$max,$count) = split(/\|/,$data{$pick}); print qq(<a href="$url"><img src="$img" alt="$alt"></a>\n); # increment the counter and save it back to the %data hash $count = $count + 1; $data{$pick} = qq($id|$img|$url|$alt|$max|$count); seek(F,0,SEEK_SET); # rewind file to beginning... foreach my $i (@ad_ids) { # and overwrite it. print F $data{$i}, "\n"; } close(F);