Random Quote PHP

[lemonlimelucky]

I'm a newbie to PHP, I'm trying to learn all I can. I build webpages and so far I've only been using HTML and CSS. But I was introduced to PHP and all the awesome stuff it can do. But anyway. What I want to figure out how to do, is make random quotes appear on the site. I have a .txt file of all these quotes by famous people I want to appear randomly each day. Like today would be a quote by George Washington, the next a quote by Mark Twain. Stuff like that. Can anyone help me?

-Lucky

[invitro]

I found this using google.ca, credit not mine. It is much more efficient then my version 🙂

/*
 J at TIPPELL dot com
12-Jun-2004 10:18
heres a little script to return a random quote from a quotes file. */

<?php
$textfile = "Includes/Quotes.txt";      //quotes file
if ($quotes = @file("$textfile")) {     //don't display errors on file open
   $quote = rand(0, sizeof($quotes)-1);
   echo $quotes[$quote];                //echo a random quote
}else{
   echo ("default quote");           //if quotes file wasn't found, echo out a default quote
}
?>

[NogDog]

Even a little bit more efficient:

<?php
$textfile = "Includes/Quotes.txt";      //quotes file
if ($quotes = @file("$textfile")) {     //don't display errors on file open
   echo $quotes[array_rand($quotes)];   //echo a random quote
}else{
   echo ("default quote");           //if quotes file wasn't found, echo out a default quote
}
?>

[lemonlimelucky]

I appreciate all the help. If you find anything else, let me know. Thanks again!

-Lucky

[kiwi2]

set the permisions on your txt file to 777.
<?php
$file = 'nameof file.txt';
$array = file($file);
shuffle($array);
echo "$array[0]";
?>