NSLog();

<?
    $lines = file('http://nslog.com/quotes.txt');
    $count = count($lines);
    $linenumber = rand()%$count;
    echo $lines[$linenumber];
?>

4 Comments »

4 Responses to "Random Quotes"

1. | Reply Rosyna
   Posted 18 Apr 2003 at 2:54am #
   

   uhm, why are you seeding the random number generator each time? It's a Bad Thing (and worthless)

2. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
   Posted 18 Apr 2003 at 8:42am #
   

   PHP.net says this: "In older versions of PHP, you had to seed the random number generator before use with srand(). Since 4.2.0 this is no longer necessary."

   This server ain't running 4.2.0, so I'm not sure what's going on, but it works without srand for now, so fine.

3. | Reply gabe
   Posted 24 Apr 2003 at 11:41am #
   

   A belated thank you for posting this! It's good to have some options.

4. | Reply life
   Posted 24 Apr 2003 at 11:54am #
   

   Knowledge Sharing

   One of the cool benefits of blogging is sharing knowledge with other bloggers. Of course, there are community blogs like