Posted by Andy Hassall on 11/14/20 11:24

On 18 Aug 2005 14:54:10 -0700, google@sigol.co.uk wrote:

>Hi I'm a newbie. I want to create a simple script that reads a text
>file (quotes.txt) and picks a quote from the file at random. There will
>be one quote per line in the file. Any help would be greatly
>appreciated.

A näive but simple and effective approach for smallish files could just use:

http://uk2.php.net/file
http://uk.php.net/array_rand

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