PHP: How to pick ~15 lines of text from a textfile and put them on my site? - GoFuckYourself.com

More Booze · 03-24-2006, 03:26 PM

I know we got some good PHP programmers around here. Anyone want to help me with this?

I got a textfile with about ~500 lines of text. I want to pick like 15 random lines and show them on my page.

Anyone know how I can do this?

Evil Doer · 03-24-2006, 03:44 PM

I can do that for you.

ICQ to the left..

pstation · 03-24-2006, 03:50 PM

pretty simple...

Code:

<?php
$a = file("somefile.txt");
for($b=0;$b<15;$b++) 
  echo $a[array_rand($a)];
?>

just off the top of my head, there's always a chance that you might get a duplicate line but it should give you a good start..

More Booze · 03-24-2006, 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pstation

pretty simple...

Code:

<?php
$a = file("somefile.txt");
for($b=0;$b<15;$b++) 
  echo $a[array_rand($a)];
?>

just off the top of my head, there's always a chance that you might get a duplicate line but it should give you a good start..

Very nice, thank you very much! Works great.

03-24-2006, 03:26 PM	#1
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03-24-2006, 03:50 PM	#3
pstation Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: chicago Posts: 1,135	pretty simple... Code: <?php $a = file("somefile.txt"); for($b=0;$b<15;$b++) echo $a[array_rand($a)]; ?> just off the top of my head, there's always a chance that you might get a duplicate line but it should give you a good start..