Re: RANDOM

From: Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 20:16:28 +0000
Subject: Re: RANDOM
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>Could somebody please show me, send me an example or redirect me to a page which shows how to >show a random FLASH movie from a text file which contains different names of different movies >so that when i go on the page it shows lets say, 1 of the 5 movies in the text document. <?php # Pick a movie, any movie: $path = "/path/to/your/text/file/of/movie/URLs.txt"; $movies = file($path) or die("Could not open $path for reading."); srand((double) microtime() * 1000000); $index = rand(0, count($movies)); $movie = $movies[$index]; # Output the HTML to show that movie: echo "<PARAM NAME=MOVIE NAME=$movie>"; ?> There's a lot more HTML to do a SWF properly than that, though, no...? You can put as many movies as you want in your text file. -- WARNING richard@zend.com address is an endangered species -- Use ceo@l-i-e.com Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm

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