I'm looking for a "text randomizer" script.

There's a div in my layout that should be pulling up different content
(randomly) each time the page reloads. Ideally, I'll like to stay away from
databases and just use a text file. The way I'm envisioning it, there would
be a different text on each line. All the script would have to do is
randomly choose which line to pull text from and display it in the layout at
the appropriate location. The layout is liquid, and will adapt to any amount
of text pulled.

The text should be treated like a normal include. In other words, HTML and
CSS tags would work.

I'm open to a PHP-based solution, even if I'm no PHP programmer.

Thanks!

Can you use legacy .ASP? If so there's an object called "ContentRotator"
that would do exactly what you want.
I used it once a while ago, so if you can use ASP I'll dig it up and pass it
on as an example for you.

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"mjs" <no@thanks.com> wrote in message
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> I'm looking for a "text randomizer" script.
>
> There's a div in my layout that should be pulling up different content
> (randomly) each time the page reloads. Ideally, I'll like to stay away
> from databases and just use a text file. The way I'm envisioning it, there
> would be a different text on each line. All the script would have to do is
> randomly choose which line to pull text from and display it in the layout
> at the appropriate location. The layout is liquid, and will adapt to any
> amount of text pulled.
>
> The text should be treated like a normal include. In other words, HTML and
> CSS tags would work.
>
> I'm open to a PHP-based solution, even if I'm no PHP programmer.
>
> Thanks!
>

you could also use the rand() function in php if that's your server language

mjs skrev:
> I'm looking for a "text randomizer" script.
>
> There's a div in my layout that should be pulling up different content
> (randomly) each time the page reloads. Ideally, I'll like to stay away from
> databases and just use a text file. The way I'm envisioning it, there would
> be a different text on each line. All the script would have to do is
> randomly choose which line to pull text from and display it in the layout at
> the appropriate location. The layout is liquid, and will adapt to any amount
> of text pulled.
>
> The text should be treated like a normal include. In other words, HTML and
> CSS tags would work.
>
> I'm open to a PHP-based solution, even if I'm no PHP programmer.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>

--
Kim
---------------------------
http://www.geekministry.com

This one uses JavaScript and an array of text/quotes inside your page. No
databases required.
http://www.codelifter.com/main/javas...domquote.shtml


--Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com



"mjs" <no@thanks.com> wrote in message
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> I'm looking for a "text randomizer" script.
>
> There's a div in my layout that should be pulling up different content
> (randomly) each time the page reloads. Ideally, I'll like to stay away
from
> databases and just use a text file. The way I'm envisioning it, there
would
> be a different text on each line. All the script would have to do is
> randomly choose which line to pull text from and display it in the layout
at
> the appropriate location. The layout is liquid, and will adapt to any
amount
> of text pulled.
>
> The text should be treated like a normal include. In other words, HTML and
> CSS tags would work.
>
> I'm open to a PHP-based solution, even if I'm no PHP programmer.
>
> Thanks!
>
>

"Chris Leeds, MVP - FrontPage" <NewsGroups@ChrisLeeds.com> wrote in message
news:g7a8jt$a3l$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Can you use legacy .ASP? If so there's an object called "ContentRotator"
> that would do exactly what you want.
> I used it once a while ago, so if you can use ASP I'll dig it up and pass
> it on as an example for you.

Not sure, but I'm a bit scared of the expression "Legacy" :-)

I use DreamHost. I'm assuming you're familiar enough with it to know whether
they carry legacy ASP or not (or I can ask them, but it'll take a day or two
for an answer).

As you can see, I'm totally unfamiliar with ASP.

Is it one or the other? Because I know it uses PHP (I use PHP includes here
and there). If that means no ASP, then I've got no ASP. :-)

Could you give me a working example of how the function you suggest works?

"kim" <kim@removegeekministry.com> wrote in message
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> you could also use the rand() function in php if that's your server
> language

On 05 Aug 2008 in macromedia.dreamweaver, mjs wrote:

> I'm looking for a "text randomizer" script.
>
> There's a div in my layout that should be pulling up different
> content (randomly) each time the page reloads. Ideally, I'll like to
> stay away from databases and just use a text file. The way I'm
> envisioning it, there would be a different text on each line. All
> the script would have to do is randomly choose which line to pull
> text from and display it in the layout at the appropriate location.
> The layout is liquid, and will adapt to any amount of text pulled.
>
> The text should be treated like a normal include. In other words,
> HTML and CSS tags would work.
>
> I'm open to a PHP-based solution, even if I'm no PHP programmer.

Here's a quick-and-dirty I did a while back:

<?php
$quotesArray = file('quotes.txt');
$numQuotes = count($quotesArray); // Get the number of quotes N
$quote1 = rand(0,$numQuotes-1); // Want a random number between 0 and N-1
?>
<blockquote><?php echo $quotesArray[$quote1]; ?></blockquote>

This assumes a flat textfile named quotes.txt, in the same directory as
the page, with one quote per line. If the quotes have linebreaks in
them, the script thinks that they're separate quotes.

--
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http://makowiec.net/
Email: http://makowiec.net/contact.php

"Joe Makowiec" <makowiec@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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>
> Here's a quick-and-dirty I did a while back:
>
> <?php
> $quotesArray = file('quotes.txt');
> $numQuotes = count($quotesArray); // Get the number of quotes N
> $quote1 = rand(0,$numQuotes-1); // Want a random number between 0 and N-1
> ?>
> <blockquote><?php echo $quotesArray[$quote1]; ?></blockquote>
>
> This assumes a flat textfile named quotes.txt, in the same directory as
> the page, with one quote per line. If the quotes have linebreaks in
> them, the script thinks that they're separate quotes.

Awesome. Could it parse HTML code? I mean, would it know what to do with a
line like :

<span class="quote">Hello<br><a href="#">test</a></span>

...?

On 06 Aug 2008 in macromedia.dreamweaver, mjs wrote:

> "Joe Makowiec" <makowiec@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:Xns9AF1ACB62A946makowiecatnycapdotrE@216.104. 212.96...
>>
>> Here's a quick-and-dirty I did a while back:
>>
>> <?php
>> $quotesArray = file('quotes.txt');
>> $numQuotes = count($quotesArray); // Get the number of quotes N
>> $quote1 = rand(0,$numQuotes-1); // Want a random number between 0
>> and N-1 ?> <blockquote><?php echo $quotesArray[$quote1];
>> ?></blockquote>
>>
>> This assumes a flat textfile named quotes.txt, in the same
>> directory as the page, with one quote per line. If the quotes have
>> linebreaks in them, the script thinks that they're separate quotes.
>
> Awesome. Could it parse HTML code? I mean, would it know what to do
> with a line like :
>
> <span class="quote">Hello<br><a href="#">test</a></span>
>
> ..?

It doesn't care; it doesn't parse anything. I haven't tried it out
with UTF-8 charsets, but other than that, if you can put something into
a plain text file, the script as given will deal with it.

The only caveat I'd make is that making the code you include in the
text file work in context is left to you, the developer. If your
container is, say, a paragraph <p></p> rather than blockquote as above,
then you probably don't want to include headline tags <h2></h2> in the
quote you're importing.

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email: http://makowiec.net/contact.php

"Joe Makowiec" <makowiec@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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>
> This assumes a flat textfile named quotes.txt, in the same
> directory as the page, with one quote per line. If the quotes have
> linebreaks in them, the script thinks that they're separate quotes.
>
> The only caveat I'd make is that making the code you include in the
> text file work in context is left to you, the developer. If your
> container is, say, a paragraph <p></p> rather than blockquote as above,
> then you probably don't want to include headline tags <h2></h2> in the
> quote you're importing.

Then I'm assuming it doesn't consider <br> a line break, since it's not
parsing anything. Nothing short of an actual unicode linebreak mark the end
of a quote, right?

(Or I could just test it... which I will do right now.) :-)