Hi guys, I've got a script that will display a random quote each time the page is visited or refreshed, but I'd like to have something that will pick a random string from a list and display it for the entire day...is this possible? Thanks!
What I'd probably do is have a database table with all my quotes, then have a cron job that runs every day at midnight and updates a value in my database specifying what quote to display.
So the cron job would run the randomizing script and a quick query to set that value.
Otherwise if you leave it to cookies or some sort of dynamically ran script you're gonna have more places for failure.
Regards,
*edit* Hell, you could even do it all via flat files if you don't have database access.
I found this code online, but I'm not sure how to use it?
Code:
function RandomQuoteByInterval($TimeBase, $QuotesArray){
// Make sure it is a integer
$TimeBase = intval($TimeBase);
// How many items are in the array?
$ItemCount = count($QuotesArray);
// By using the modulus operator we get a pseudo
// random index position that is between zero and the
// maximal value (ItemCount)
$RandomIndexPos = ($TimeBase % $ItemCount);
// Now return the random array element
return $QuotesArray[$RandomIndexPos];
}
I'd need more context as to how that's being applied but my thoughts are that's gonna give every visitor a different quote per day.. so if I go to Tom and say "Hey check out the daily quote" he'll see a different one and have no idea what I'm talking about.
Just hire Jeff to do this if you don't know any PHP, it'll only take an hour or two to make and test but you can't really expect us to do you a whole php script/mysql db/cronjob for free.
If you do know it, a simpler version could as he mentioned be created using text or xml files, pretty obvious how to sort that if you do...
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