Re Displaying Text From A Data File

From:	Neil Smith [MVP, Digital media]	Date:	Sat, 04 Sep 2004 18:59:51 +0000
Subject:	Re Displaying Text From A Data File
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It's actually very simple : Just use SELECT * FROM tbl_name ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1 Cheers - Neil At 17:35 04/09/2004 +0000, you wrote:

Message-ID: <001b01c492a9$275ab1c0$95703ad8@ron> From: "Ron Piggott" <ron.php@actsministries.org> To: "PHP DB" <php-db@lists.php.net> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 14:00:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Displaying Text From A Data File I am still new to PHP and I wanted to ask a question. I am wanting to create a PHP script to randomly display one of many greeting messages on my web site. I was going to store them in a text based file. I wanted PHP to randomly select one of them and display it each time the script was loaded. I am still new at PHP and I am not sure where to get started. But I was thinking about this and I am sure this has already been done many times ... I am not sure where to look on the web. Can any of you help me get started? Ron

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