Posted by chris.huh on 11/14/06 21:57

Oh, cheers. i will have to find out what must be wrong with my local
php. I just installed WAMP5, which seems pretty good so maybe something
is set differently.

Thanks

J.O. Aho wrote:

> chris.huh wrote:
> > I have a bit of code i got from a site a while ago. I notice now that
> > the script does not work on my local machine running php5 but does work
> > on my hosting server with php4 on it so i am guessing it is somethign
> > to do with that.
> >
> > The code is:
> >
> > <?
> > $textfile ="random.txt";
> > $items = file("$textfile");
> > $item = rand(0, sizeof($items)-1);
> > echo $items[$item];
> > ?>
> >
> > Does anything think that it is because of the versions and if it is how
> > to fix it?
>
> PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Oct 12 2006 17:00:51)
> Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group
> Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies
>
> No trouble at all with the unmodified small script, just your local php that
> must be broken somehow.
>
>
> //Aho

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