Stupid question, easy answer! HELP!

[Anon]

hello,

Ok I have a PERL script that grabs ONE LINE OF HTML from a text file containing several line, and displays these lines at random.

HOW DO I EXECUTE this PERL script in PHP?

Better yet, anyone know any PHP code that'll grab ONE LINE of HTML from a .txt file and display it randomly?

Please help!

[Anon]

i figure this is a LE script.

heres how to execute it.

<?php
virtual("./le/link.cgi");
?>

and if you want to use php just put the text file into an array, count the lines, choose your field seperator (deliminator)

$lineData = explode("|", $lineData);

and your ready to get data from it.

heres how you would do it in cgi (aka perl)
(note: i wrote this from a gnu machine, not windows)

open(DATA,"$db1");
flock (DATA,2);
@ = <DATA>;
flock (DATA,8);
close(DATA);
@ = sort {$b <=> $a} @;

foreach $line(@) {
$counter++;
@linedata = split (/|/, $line);

print "$linedata[1]\n";
}

something like that...

have fun.

[khaine]

Grab one line randomly?? Cant say that I could see a use for this, but how about

<?

$filename=getcwd()."/index.html";
$fpr=fopen($filename, "r") or die();
$datain=fread($fpr, filesize($filename));
fclose($fpr);
$lines=explode("\n", $datain);
$rannum=mt_rand(0, (count($lines)-1));
echo htmlspecialchars($lines[$rannum]);

?>

It reads the entire file into an array then picks one at random.

Mark.