Seeking a "Text/Quote Randomizer" Script (nothing fancy)

Question

I'm looking for a "text randomizer" script.
There's a div in my layout that should be pulling up
different content
(randomly) each time the page reloads. Ideally, I'll like to
stay away from
databases and just use a text file. The way I'm envisioning
it, there would
be a different text on each line. All the script would have
to do is
randomly choose which line to pull text from and display it
in the layout at
the appropriate location. The layout is liquid, and will
adapt to any amount
of text pulled.
The text should be treated like a normal include. In other
words, HTML and
CSS tags would work.
I'm open to a PHP-based solution, even if I'm no PHP
programmer.
Thanks!

Answer 1

On 06 Aug 2008 in macromedia.dreamweaver, mjs wrote:
> "Joe Makowiec" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>
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>>
>> Here's a quick-and-dirty I did a while back:
>>
>> <?php
>> $quotesArray = file('quotes.txt');
>> $numQuotes = count($quotesArray); // Get the number
of quotes N
>> $quote1 = rand(0,$numQuotes-1); // Want a random
number between 0
>> and N-1 ?> <blockquote><?php echo
$quotesArray[$quote1];
>> ?></blockquote>
>>
>> This assumes a flat textfile named quotes.txt, in
the same
>> directory as the page, with one quote per line. If
the quotes have
>> linebreaks in them, the script thinks that they're
separate quotes.
>
> Awesome. Could it parse HTML code? I mean, would it know
what to do
> with a line like :
>
> <span class="quote">Hello<br><a
href="#">test</a></span>
>
> ..?
It doesn't care; it doesn't parse anything. I haven't tried
it out
with UTF-8 charsets, but other than that, if you can put
something into
a plain text file, the script as given will deal with it.
The only caveat I'd make is that making the code you include
in the
text file work in context is left to you, the developer. If
your
container is, say, a paragraph <p></p> rather
than blockquote as above,
then you probably don't want to include headline tags
<h2></h2> in the
quote you're importing.
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email:
http://makowiec.net/contact.php