Random Quotes

[stewe151]

I have sort of a complicated question to ask. I'm using this script on one of my pages:

<?php
srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$tiplist = file("tips.txt");
$ntips = sizeof($tiplist);
$rtip = rand(0,$ntips-1);
$tip = $tiplist[$rtip];
echo $tip;
?>

I keep random quotes in a file called tips.txt . When it reads from that file, it reads each line as a different quote, i.e:

1) blah blah blah
2) whatever
3) um... weird...
4) huh...

but instead of that I want it so that the quotes are seperated by a blank line, i.e:

1) blah
blah
blah

2)whatever

3)um...
weird...

4) huh...

how would I go about doing this? I am really extremly new with this kind of stuff.
Thanks for any help! 🙂

[diego25]

Instead of using file(), use fopen and fread to read the entire page into one string. Then use explode to separate each quote by a blank line. The terminator used for explode (i.e. the blank line) would be "\n\n" (If you use jus tone "\n" it will separate on each line, like file() does).

Diego