php random quote or another way?

[Ian Shere]

Found a great little piece of coding that I'd like to use (I basically
wanted a random quote popping up on my homepage). What I found was a piece
of PHP coding but I cannot figure out how to use it on my page. I have
tried inserting HTML here there and everywhere but nothing shows up when I
run the page (even publishing remotely). Code is as follows:

<?php
$quotes = array(
'Impossible is a word to be found only in the
dictionary of fools.<br />&mdash; Napoleon Bonaparte',

'A person who never made a mistake never tried any
thing new.<br /> &mdash; Albert Einstein',

'Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show
you a failure.<br />&mdash; Thomas A. Edison',
);

/*
generate a random number between zero
and the number of quotes minus one
*/
$rand = rand(0, (count($quotes)-1));

// output the random quote
echo $quotes[$rand];
?>

What am I doing wrong? Or does anyone have a better/easier way to do this?
JS maybe?

TIA

Ian

[TheBox]

Hi Ian,

I use this little script:

<?
// Quick random quote
// This script reads a quote file (flat text file), and picks one of the
loaded
// quotes at random and displays it.
// Line breaks and formatting can be put into the quotefile as HTML tags
// Place the quotes.txt on your site, edit the $quotefile variable below,
// And copy and paste this code into your PHP page.

// $delim tells this script what delimits the quotes (default is a CR/LF)
$delim = "\n";

// $wuotefile points to the file that holds the actual quotes
$quotefile = "quotes.txt";

$fp = fopen($quotefile, "r");
$contents = fread($fp, filesize($quotefile));
$quote_arr = explode($delim,$contents);
fclose($fp);
srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$quote_index = (rand(1, sizeof($quote_arr)) - 1);
$herequote = $quote_arr[$quote_index];
echo $herequote;
?>

The way I implement is to place a text box, ctrl+t to insert the above
script. Size it to your liking. Then create the quotes.txt file with all
your quotes in it. Upload the txt file to the same directory as the page.
Publish your page. Make sure your page extension is .php.
-
HTH,
Bert


"Ian Shere" <ian@tarzandesign.co.nz> wrote in message
news:g2s0th$oi34@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
> Found a great little piece of coding that I'd like to use (I basically
> wanted a random quote popping up on my homepage). What I found was a
> piece of PHP coding but I cannot figure out how to use it on my page. I
> have tried inserting HTML here there and everywhere but nothing shows up
> when I run the page (even publishing remotely). Code is as follows:
>
> <?php
> $quotes = array(
> 'Impossible is a word to be found only in the
> dictionary of fools.<br />&mdash; Napoleon Bonaparte',
>
> 'A person who never made a mistake never tried any
> thing new.<br /> &mdash; Albert Einstein',
>
> 'Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show
> you a failure.<br />&mdash; Thomas A. Edison',
> );
>
> /*
> generate a random number between zero
> and the number of quotes minus one
> */
> $rand = rand(0, (count($quotes)-1));
>
> // output the random quote
> echo $quotes[$rand];
> ?>
>
> What am I doing wrong? Or does anyone have a better/easier way to do
> this? JS maybe?
>
> TIA
>
> Ian

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Chuck_=ABBeyondFusion=BB?=]

Did you publish the page with a .php file extension?

pagename.php rather than pagename.html

As Bert said, you use a Ctrl+T in a text box and then position the text box
where you want the script to execute.
--
Chuck Joslin
BeyondFusion.com - Your Fusion Community
www.beyondfusion.com

Register domain names at www.awavedomains.com

"Ian Shere" <ian@tarzandesign.co.nz> wrote in message
news:g2s0th$oi34@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
> Found a great little piece of coding that I'd like to use (I basically
> wanted a random quote popping up on my homepage). What I found was a
> piece of PHP coding but I cannot figure out how to use it on my page. I
> have tried inserting HTML here there and everywhere but nothing shows up
> when I run the page (even publishing remotely). Code is as follows:
>
> <?php
> $quotes = array(
> 'Impossible is a word to be found only in the
> dictionary of fools.<br />&mdash; Napoleon Bonaparte',
>
> 'A person who never made a mistake never tried any
> thing new.<br /> &mdash; Albert Einstein',
>
> 'Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show
> you a failure.<br />&mdash; Thomas A. Edison',
> );
>
> /*
> generate a random number between zero
> and the number of quotes minus one
> */
> $rand = rand(0, (count($quotes)-1));
>
> // output the random quote
> echo $quotes[$rand];
> ?>
>
> What am I doing wrong? Or does anyone have a better/easier way to do
> this? JS maybe?
>
> TIA
>
> Ian

[Ian Shere]

That was the problem Chuck - like I said, I'm a real dabbler and "a little
knowledge is dangerous!!!" Didn't realise I needed to publlish as *.php
pages! Doh, seems logical now I know! :-)

Cheers

Ian

"Ian Shere" <ian@tarzandesign.co.nz> wrote in message
news:g2s0th$oi34@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
> Found a great little piece of coding that I'd like to use (I basically
> wanted a random quote popping up on my homepage). What I found was a
> piece of PHP coding but I cannot figure out how to use it on my page. I
> have tried inserting HTML here there and everywhere but nothing shows up
> when I run the page (even publishing remotely). Code is as follows:
>
> <?php
> $quotes = array(
> 'Impossible is a word to be found only in the
> dictionary of fools.<br />&mdash; Napoleon Bonaparte',
>
> 'A person who never made a mistake never tried any
> thing new.<br /> &mdash; Albert Einstein',
>
> 'Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show
> you a failure.<br />&mdash; Thomas A. Edison',
> );
>
> /*
> generate a random number between zero
> and the number of quotes minus one
> */
> $rand = rand(0, (count($quotes)-1));
>
> // output the random quote
> echo $quotes[$rand];
> ?>
>
> What am I doing wrong? Or does anyone have a better/easier way to do
> this? JS maybe?
>
> TIA
>
> Ian