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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://www.trap17.com/forums/Random-Messag...ator-t7603.html

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

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 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.

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[i]);
//-->
</SCRIPT>
have fun
Blix

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.

One way:

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 trap17.