After trying several modules and to hack random image native module, I found this module and it fulfill all my needs. This module does what it says without any complication.

By the way I just found that to resize images without loosing image aspect ratio, you should only limit the width and not the height of the image in the module parameters. This (I don't know why) risezes the image respecting the image aspect ratio.

Well that was too easy. It just worked first go. All I wanted was a random image in my header, not a slideshow or lightboxes or any other bells and whistles. The random image module that comes with J1.5 wouldn't work but this did.
Thankyou :)

I have been looking for a way to rotate images on my header for weeks now, and this is the most simple way to display a new random image on my header every time the page refreshes. I tried several components for this application (including a flash header that would not display correctly in IE), and I even tried hard coding it into my html. Random Image Plus worked correctly the first time and I am very happy with this simple module!

To use this as a rotating header, you should make all of your images the same size and orientation, and all of the images must be stored in the same folder. Also, you have to create a module location in the proper location in your CSS (which could ba a pain if you're new to CSS and Joomla coding). Once that's done, it should take about 5 minutes to use this module.

Note that if you're looking for a constantly rotating flash header, this is not for you. But if you want something very simple to make your page look less stagnant, this is the perfect tool! Thanks so much!

This is a great module. Simple but great.

Unfortunately it does not support uppercase extensions (Like .JPG instead of .jpg).
So I cannot use this module.

Too bad!

This added the recursion, which is just what I was after. Now, my only problem is that it grabs thumbnails, stretching them to my indicated size. A pixel dimension threshold would be most appreciated.

Thanks, though!

Great extension! The "Squeeze Box" is a great feature. Just some suggestion for some future versions.

- Would be interesting to have the option as a rotator image.
- If made as rotator in the future, it also would be wonderful to get to make each image get its own link and not only one link for all images.

Well, just a suggestion. Congratulations for great extension and thanks for sharing it.

Just what I needed for a rotating header. I love that it can use various formats at once - jpg, gif, png. Also it loads quickly, the dimensions can be precisely specified. Worked perfectly right out of the box.

I found this to be a great improvement on the standard module, allowing images from subdirectories to display. The only thing I wasn't entirely happy with was the way it resizes images. Having a mix of landscape and portrait images on my site, it created to much variation is size, and the proportions of the images were all wrong, when specifying a width and height. I have modified the code to allow you to specify height of portrait images and width of landscape, thus keeping the original proportions of the image.. If you're interested I'll send you the modifications..

I just downloaded this extension and made a modification in the mod_random_image_plus.php file on line 17. I did this because I didn't know what path to write in the folder parameter of the module, the complete path (http://ww..) ??

Well, I changed:

$folder = JPath::clean( $params->get( 'folder', JPATH_BASE . DS . 'images') );

For:

$folder = JPATH_BASE . JPath::clean( $params->get( 'folder', DS .'images') );

This way, we only need to add a relative path (/images/directory) to the site url like we used to on the regular mod_random_image.
Just a suggestion, but the module works really great.
Thanks!

Maybe I missed something but this mod removes a major ability from the standard Random Image mod in 1.5 - There is no ability to add a link to the images

Actually I was hoping for such a mod for a long time! This mod is really a good help for the ones who want to improve the basic Random Image mod capabilities.
The display modes allow you to have a very different look for your random image. In example, use the amazing Squeeze Box Mode to allow the user to display a full size image; he can then click on the cross button to close this preview and return back to the site.
It's useless to talk about the advantage offered by this mode in terms of organization; in fact, get rid of this mess you made by putting all your images in the same directory, because this mod allows you to create a clean arborescence.
You should really try this mod, but be carefull :it's addictive!