Re: Joke of the day problem
| From: | Mark | Date: | Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:11:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Joke of the day problem | ||
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Delta Storm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> again me with the silly questions...
>
> I need a script that will take data from MySQL database and display one
> row each day.
>
> I have googled, but with no luck.
>
> The database retrieving mechanism is of course clear but I really dont
> know how to do a 24h delay before the next row is displayed.
>
>
> Thanks in advance :)
I do something similar on my sites. Rather than hit "fortune" for every page
view, I have a process that runs fortune and pipes the output to a file
every so often. Then for sites that need a cute quote, just include as a
<PRE>...</PRE> formated element.
It reduces the load quite a bit.