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  • Donners
    Confirmed User
    • Jun 2004
    • 689
    #1

    php help needed!

    I have this simple php script..

    Code:
    <?
   $quoteFile = "quotes.txt";  //File holding qoutes

   $fp = fopen($quoteFile, "r");   //Opens file for read
   $content = fread($fp, filesize($quoteFile));
   $quotes = explode("\n",$content);   //Put quotes into array
   fclose($fp);   //Close the file

   srand((double)microtime()*1000000);  // randomize
   $index = (rand(1, sizeof($quotes)) - 1); //Pick random qoute

   echo $quotes[$index]; //Print quote to screen

?>
    But it only displays ONE qoute, I want it to display any number of qoutes of my choice. How can I do this?
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    • Ice
      Confirmed User
      • Nov 2002
      • 26053
      #2
      are all your quotes saved in the quotes.txt file and is that file in the same directory as the random quote file?
      icq 1904905

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        • Donners
          Confirmed User
          • Jun 2004
          • 689
          #3
          Yes, and it has one qoute per line.

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            • Ice
              Confirmed User
              • Nov 2002
              • 26053
              #4
              Originally posted by Donners
              Yes, and it has one qoute per line.
              hmmm I just set it up on my server and it works fine....

              below is the code I used and an example of the quotes.txt file...

              index.php

              <html>
              <head>
              <title>Untitled</title>
              </head>

              <body>

              <?
              $quoteFile = "quotes.txt"; //File holding qoutes

              $fp = fopen($quoteFile, "r"); //Opens file for read
              $content = fread($fp, filesize($quoteFile));
              $quotes = explode("\n",$content); //Put quotes into array
              fclose($fp); //Close the file

              srand((double)microtime()*1000000); // randomize
              $index = (rand(1, sizeof($quotes)) - 1); //Pick random qoute

              echo $quotes[$index]; //Print quote to screen
              ?>


              </body>
              </html>


              quotes.txt

              lick my balls
              eat my ass
              I like paste



              link to working example of above...

              http://www.pornfinders.com/quote/index.php
              icq 1904905

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                • Donners
                  Confirmed User
                  • Jun 2004
                  • 689
                  #5
                  It works for me too. Maybe my question wasn't clear but I want to be able to show more then one qoute.

                  Instead of getting

                  "lick my balls"

                  I want to get

                  "lick my balls"
                  "eat my ass"

                  Or all three qoute if i want to. Any way of specificing how many qoutes it shows?

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                    • Rice_Master
                      Confirmed User
                      • Mar 2001
                      • 1582
                      #6
                      Code:
                      <?
   $howmany = 3; // The number of quotes to display.
   $quoteFile = "quotes.txt";  //File holding qoutes

   $fp = fopen($quoteFile, "r");   //Opens file for read
   $content = fread($fp, filesize($quoteFile));
   $quotes = explode("\n",$content);   //Put quotes into array
   fclose($fp);   //Close the file

   For ($i = 0; $i < $howmany; $i++) {
 
   srand((double)microtime()*1000000);  // randomize
   $index = (rand(1, sizeof($quotes)) - 1); //Pick random qoute

   echo $quotes[$index] . "<br>"; //Print quote to screen

   }

?>
                      That'll work.
                      Icq: 31706665

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                        • Rice_Master
                          Confirmed User
                          • Mar 2001
                          • 1582
                          #7
                          Originally posted by Rice_Master
                          Code:
                          <?
   $howmany = 3; // The number of quotes to display.
   $quoteFile = "quotes.txt";  //File holding qoutes

   $fp = fopen($quoteFile, "r");   //Opens file for read
   $content = fread($fp, filesize($quoteFile));
   $quotes = explode("\n",$content);   //Put quotes into array
   fclose($fp);   //Close the file

   For ($i = 0; $i < $howmany; $i++) {
 
   srand((double)microtime()*1000000);  // randomize
   $index = (rand(1, sizeof($quotes)) - 1); //Pick random qoute

   echo $quotes[$index] . "<br>"; //Print quote to screen

   }

?>
                          That'll work.
                          There's a chance of getting the same quote twice with that code though.
                          Icq: 31706665

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                            • Donners
                              Confirmed User
                              • Jun 2004
                              • 689
                              #8
                              Many thanks!
                              Works perfectly!
                              Should have gone here directly, would have saved me a few hours of googling without any results.
                              Thanks again, you saved my day

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                                • swedguy
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Jan 2002
                                  • 7981
                                  #9
                                  Or a shorter version....

                                  Code:
                                  <?
$howmany = 3;
$quoteFile = "quotes.txt";
$quotesArr = file($quoteFile);
$quotes = array_rand($quotesArr, $howmany);
print join("<br>", $quotes);
?>

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                                    • Donners
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Jun 2004
                                      • 689
                                      #10
                                      That only shows a bunch of numbers..

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                                        • swedguy
                                          Confirmed User
                                          • Jan 2002
                                          • 7981
                                          #11
                                          Oops. Fast and wrong ;)
                                          I forgot that it returned the keys and not the values. This one works:

                                          Code:
                                          <?
$howmany = 3;
$quoteFile = "in.log";
$quotesArr = file($quoteFile);
$keys = array_rand($quotesArr, $howmany);
foreach ($keys as $key)
	print $quotesArr[$key]."<br>";
?>

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