Help with a PHP script

I've got a cgi script that allows me to add the output of a php script to an
html page using the following line of code.

#insert : http://www.url.com/sript.php#

What I'm wondering is if someone could write me a couple of lines of code
for script.php that would randomly select one line of information from a
text file called text.txt.

This way, if I had the following line in my html file, the place where
#insert : http://www.url.com/sript.php# is located, would be replaced by a
random line of text from text.txt.

<a href="http://www.yahoo.com">#insert : http://www.url.com/sript.php#</a>

The contents of text.txt would be something like this:

This is yahoo
yahoo is a search engine
search using yahoo

Thanks for the help.

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 06:32:04 +0000, (a) wrote:
> I've got a cgi script that allows me to add the output of a php script to an
> html page using the following line of code.
>
> #insert : http://www.url.com/sript.php#
>
> What I'm wondering is if someone could write me a couple of lines of code
> for script.php that would randomly select one line of information from a
> text file called text.txt.

Assuming your text.txt file isn't too big and is in the same directory as
/script.php :

<?php

// Slurp all the lines of test.txt in to an array
$data = file("test.txt");

// Print a random (rand) line from 0 (start of the array) to
// the end of the array (count($array)-1)
print $data[rand(0, count($data)-1)];

?>

If this was a homework assignment, I'll kill you in your own kitchen!!!
:-)

Cheers,



Andy

Nope, not homework, would never cheat.

Just I'm not a programmer and it was faster to ask a question in an expert
forum then to have to learn php to solve a single problem I was having.


"Andy Jeffries" <news@andyjeffries.remove.co.uk> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.09.11.13.16.38.928918@andyjeffries.r emove.co.uk...
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 06:32:04 +0000, (a) wrote:
> > I've got a cgi script that allows me to add the output of a php script
to an
> > html page using the following line of code.
> >
> > #insert : http://www.url.com/sript.php#
> >
> > What I'm wondering is if someone could write me a couple of lines of
code
> > for script.php that would randomly select one line of information from a
> > text file called text.txt.
>
> Assuming your text.txt file isn't too big and is in the same directory as
> /script.php :
>
> <?php
>
> // Slurp all the lines of test.txt in to an array
> $data = file("test.txt");
>
> // Print a random (rand) line from 0 (start of the array) to
> // the end of the array (count($array)-1)
> print $data[rand(0, count($data)-1)];
>
> ?>
>
> If this was a homework assignment, I'll kill you in your own kitchen!!!
> :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Andy