Comments on: random quotes with PHP

By: ill-fated

ill-fated — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:18:29 +0000

can you explain the code to me?

i am a complete newbie in php so mind explaining this to me line by line? whats $quotes srand double macrotime etc etc..

desperately needing your help..thanks..

By: Oscar Cortez

Oscar Cortez — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:11:25 +0000

This is a great script.

One problem I noticed that could caused the php to throw back an error … when you copy and paste, depending on your text-editor, it might paste the ” around the txt file reference incorrectly … as right-angle quotes instead of just straight-quotes.

Thanks!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:12:05 +0000

Tim: the random quotes file should be a plain text file (ending in .txt) with one quote per line. You can put that quotes file anywhere on your site. In your PHP script, you’ll need to specify the full path (not URL, but path on your server) to your quotes file, so something like /home/tim/my_site/quotes.txt

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:44:54 +0000

I have copied and pasted as per the pages, But it don’t work. What format should the location of the file be. Relative to the random files or relative to the site?

By: Christina

Christina — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:38:50 +0000

For some reason I’m getting all the quotes on the same page, and not one random one. I copied your code exactly, I didn’t alter it at all. Do you maybe know what the problem is? If you do and you can help me, please e-mail me about it. :D

Thank you for this code though! It was a great help. ;)

By: CJ Pruitt

CJ Pruitt — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:10:29 +0000

That actually seems to be the best explanation I’ve gotten for the random quote… you’re so awesome!

By: Trinity

Trinity — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:57:37 +0000

This has nothing to do with this entry, but I love the new style!

By: Jem

Jem — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:54:52 +0000

I wrote something very similar a while ago for showing random images/quotes (it’s super basic)..

$max = count($quote);
$count = rand(1,$max);

(and then obviously put the quotes in an array.)

I remember trying to do this with JavaScript last year and to me at the time it seemed much more complex. I love PHP, it is my friend.