Generate Random Phrases ...from a txt file

[snlildude87 0]

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I have a question on how to generate random phrases (facts, quotes, etc) which the server will randomly pick from txt file. Normally, I would use SSI to accomplish this task, but I recently added a blog (Nucleus) to my site which uses PHP (.php file). So my question is, how can you display random phrases in which the server will pick from a specified text file?

Thanks!
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I saw a thread very similar to my problem, but the code supplied by Inspired does not allow the server to select the phrase from a file. The only reason I want this is because I have over 100 quotes, and putting all 100 in a big php file would be a hassel.
Thread: http://forums.xisto.com/topic/7603-random-message-generator/

In case you're interested, this is how you can generate random facts using SSI:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wTuse strict;my $quote;open(QUOTES, "facts.txt") or die "Oops! Can't find quote file: $!";srand;rand($.) < 1 && ($quote = $_) while <QUOTES>;print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";print $quote;

Then you have a name the code above to facts.cgi and create a facts.txt file (or any name you wish) where you will store all your phrases. You must have one phrase per line.

After that, place the code

<!--#include virtual="cgi-bin/facts.cgi"-->

in a place in your web page that you want a chosen phrase to appear, change the permission of facts.cgi to 755, rename your web page to xxx.cgi, and upload the three files.

[Blix 0]

Hi, you can do this very easy with javascript...

 

just an example:

Put the following text into the body tag of your website

<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

 

<!--

QuoteText = new Array(3);

QuoteText[0] = 'text1';

QuoteText[1] = 'text2';

QuoteText[2] = 'text3';

 

i = Math.floor(Math.random() * QuoteText.length);

document.write(QuoteText);

//-->

</SCRIPT>

have fun

Blix

[snlildude87 0]

Blix, thanks for the reply, but the phrase would not show if a person has JavaScript disabled because JavaScript can sometimes be intrusive.PHP, however, will always show because the server processes the request, not the browser.

[OwrLam 0]

One way:

<?$file="base.txt"; # имя файла, где хранятся фразы$array=file($file);echo $array[rand(0,count($array)-1)];?>

[snlildude87 0]

You, my friend, are THE man! I case can't tell by my reaction, OwrLam's code works!Thank you so much, and welcome to Xisto.