Random Text

lesmith

Hello All hope you can help with this.

I want to display Random text but using DEFINES.

ie Defines in a include file =

<?
define ("TITLE", "A Title");
define ("DESCRIPTION", "Page descritption");
?>

Now I would like to display Random quotes. I have tried various ways but cannot get any to work.
like this.

<? srand((float) microtime() * 10000000);

	$quote = array("<?TITLE?>", "This is just a test 1", "This is just a test 2");

	$echo = array_rand($quote, 3);
			?>


	<?
	//Random quote is chosen by the main variable then by its number
	echo $quote[$echo[1]];
	?>

mmilano

maybe something like:

<?
$quotes['first quote'];
$quotes['second quote'];
$quotes['third quote'];
$quotes['forth quote'];

echo $quotes[ rand(0,(  count($quotes) - 1)  ];
?>

lesmith

Thank you for that. But still get errors. Here is what I put.
<?
$quotes['<?=IMAGE_CONNECTIVITY?>'];
$quotes['second quote'];
$quotes['third quote'];
$quotes['forth quote'];

	echo $quotes[ rand(0,(  count($quotes) - 1)  ]; 
	?>

the echo line it does not like giving me a parse error.

Any other ideas.

Lee

mmilano

$quotes['<?=IMAGE_CONNECTIVITY?>'];

you are using <? and ?> .. why?

you have already told php to start parsing by the <? at the top.

mmilano

also, PHP ERRORS ARE YOUR FRIENDS!

read them carefully, and post your errors when you get them.

they are actually very informative.

lesmith

Sorry but I am a newbie. But I still have same error.

code again

<?
define ("DESCRIPTION", "Page descritption");

	$quotes['IMAGE_CONNECTIVITY']; 
	$quotes['second quote']; 
	$quotes['third quote']; 
	$quotes['forth quote']; 

	echo $quotes[ rand(0,(  count($quotes) - 1)  ]; 
	?>

error = Parse error: parse error in /home/httpd/webiste/site.com/httpdocs/pages/default.php on line 27

line 27 is the echo line

mmilano

i left out a paren ..

echo $quotes[ rand(0,( count($quotes) - 1) ) ];

i could have made this more clear. that is the same as this:

<?
// get the number of elements in the array
$total_elements = count($quotes);


// pic the random element between 0 and total elements
$random_element = rand( 0, $total_elements );

// echo the random element
echo $quotes[ $random_element ];
?>

lesmith

Real thanks for your help. But I am still having trouble getting it to work.

Here is the code again simplified.

$quotes['TITLE'];
$quotes['second quote'];
$quotes['third quote'];
$quotes['forth quote'];

	// get the number of elements in the array 
	$total_elements = count($quotes); 

	echo $total_elements;
	// pic the random element between 0 and total elements 
	$random_element = rand( 2, $total_elements ); 

	// echo the random element 
	echo $quotes[ $random_element ];

I am still getting no output. I threw in the echo $total_elements and it gives me 0. So the array is not working.

Can you shed any further light

Thank you again

Lee

mmilano

sorry, i wrote that too quick

$quotes[] = "first quote";
$quotes[] = "second quote";
$quotes[] = "third quote";

Marino

maybe it it just a typo.. is this correct (your code)

define ("DESCRIPTION", "Page descritption");

discritption - discription (lose the extra t)

lesmith

Thanks for the reply

No its not real code just test code.

While it does work. It still will not display my define.

god getting me down now

Thank for your help