Re: Displaying Text From A Data File

"Ron Piggott" <ron.php@actsministries.org> wrote in message news:001b01c492a9$275ab1c0$95703ad8@ron... > 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 Hi Ron, put your messages in a text file line by line (each message on a separate line). Then use the following code to echo out a random message: $messages = file('/path/to/your/file.txt'); // file() returns an array where each line is an array element $randomKey = array_rand($messages); // will return a random array index echo $messages[$randomKey]; Hope this helps. Regards, torsten Roehr