Include one line from txt file

[Owdy]

Lets say i got aphorism.txt. There are one aphorism per line. What is easy way to print one line per time with include or similar?

[Chris Cromer]

Do you mean going through a loop of the lines in that file? Or printing one at random from that file? Or am I missunderstanding what you want to do?

[Kirby]

Lets say i got aphorism.txt. There are one aphorism per line. What is easy way to print one line per time with include or similar?

You could use file(<file path>), it will make an array with every line in it.

[Owdy]

Do you mean going through a loop of the lines in that file? Or printing one at random from that file? Or am I missunderstanding what you want to do?

One random line. So i write 20 aphorisms and then somehow print one at the time to my site.

[Kirby]

something like:

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$aphorisms = @file(<file path>);
echo $aphorisms[rand(0, count($aphorisms))];


[Owdy]

What is file name? I dont understand.

Like this?
$aphorisms = @aforismi.txt(<file path>);
echo $aphorisms[rand(0, count($aphorisms))];

With .shtml that seems to be easy http://www.opus1.com/www/demo/random.htmlx

[Chris Cromer]

No like this:

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$aphorisms = @file('aphorism.txt');
echo $aphorisms[rand(0, count($aphorisms))];

You where supposed to replace "<file path>" with the name of the file.

[Owdy]

Hey it works! Thanks both

I also find this from net:

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<?
  // Quick random quote
  // This script reads a quote file (flat text file), and picks one of the loaded
  // quotes at random and displays it.
  // Line breaks and formatting can be put into the quotefile as HTML tags
  // Place the quotes.txt on your site, edit the $quotefile variable below,
  // And copy and paste this code into your PHP page.
 
  // $delim tells this script what delimits the quotes (default is a CR/LF)
  $delim = "\n";
 
  // $wuotefile points to the file that holds the actual quotes
  $quotefile = "quotes.txt";
 
  $fp = fopen($quotefile, "r");
  $contents = fread($fp, filesize($quotefile));
  $quote_arr = explode($delim,$contents);
  fclose($fp);
  srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
  $quote_index = (rand(1, sizeof($quote_arr)) - 1);
  $herequote = $quote_arr[$quote_index];
  echo $herequote;
?>

[Chris Cromer]

Yeah that does the exact same thing but uses different commands... except that file puts it into an array already instead of you having explode it into one.

[Owdy]

How about random aphorism a day? I mean that it only changes one time per day?

[Kirby]

You can make it store it in modSettings, and then have it reset every 24 hours (determined via page view, just like auto optimization).

[Owdy]

hmmm, not sure that i know how to do that...

[morph]

Or make 31 lines of aphorism's , then do something like

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<?php

$aphorisms = @file('aphorism.txt');
$date = date("d");
echo $date{0} == 0 ? $aphorisms[strtr($date, array("0" => ''))] : $aphorisms[$date];

?>