Generate Random Phrases

snlildude87

Mar 14 2005, 08:44 PM

<question>
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!
</end question>

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:

CODE

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use 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

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.

Blix

Mar 14 2005, 09:27 PM

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">


</SCRIPT>
have fun
Blix

snlildude87

Mar 14 2005, 10:54 PM

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

Mar 17 2005, 05:44 PM

One way:

CODE

<?
$file="base.txt"; # имя файла, где хранятся фразы

$array=file($file);
echo $array[rand(0,count($array)-1)];
?>

snlildude87

Mar 17 2005, 09:51 PM

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.

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