Random quote help

[JDJones]

I'm using the following to generate a random quote on a PHP page and it
works fine:

<?php
$quotes[] = 'quote #1';
$quotes[] = 'quote #2';
$quotes[] = 'quote #3';
$quotes[] = 'etc...';

srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
$random_number = rand(0,count($q uotes)-1);

echo ($quotes[$random_number]);
?>


My question is how can I modify this so that it would show a single
quote but only every 10th time the page was called? I searched Google to
see if there was a premade script that would do this but all I could
find were ones like I'm already using.

Thanks.

[Per Gustafsson]

Re: Random quote help

JDJones wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm using the following to generate a random quote on a PHP page and
> it works fine:
>
> <?php
> $quotes[] = 'quote #1';
> $quotes[] = 'quote #2';
> $quotes[] = 'quote #3';
> $quotes[] = 'etc...';
>
> srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
> $random_number = rand(0,count($q uotes)-1);
>
> echo ($quotes[$random_number]);[color=green]
>>[/color]
>
>
> My question is how can I modify this so that it would show a single
> quote but only every 10th time the page was called? I searched Google
> to see if there was a premade script that would do this but all I
> could find were ones like I'm already using.[/color]

If you want this random you can simply use rand(0,9) == 0 or so, if you
want it to be exactly every 10th time you need to write to a text file
or a database. A quite simple task using fopen(), fwrite(), fread() etc.


Per Gustafsson

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[Randell D.]

Re: Random quote help


"JDJones" <wvnh2@netscape .net> wrote in message
news:besn37$dhd $1@slb3.atl.min dspring.net...[color=blue]
> I'm using the following to generate a random quote on a PHP page and it
> works fine:
>
> <?php
> $quotes[] = 'quote #1';
> $quotes[] = 'quote #2';
> $quotes[] = 'quote #3';
> $quotes[] = 'etc...';
>
> srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
> $random_number = rand(0,count($q uotes)-1);
>
> echo ($quotes[$random_number]);
> ?>
>
>
> My question is how can I modify this so that it would show a single
> quote but only every 10th time the page was called? I searched Google to
> see if there was a premade script that would do this but all I could
> find were ones like I'm already using.
>
> Thanks.
>[/color]

I suggest a cookie or session or keeping track in a file if you want it
exactly every ten times - if you're not bothered too bothered, you could
divide the hour by ten and if the current minute fits between one of two
values, use that to make your selection - that way a page refresh would
pretty much get you the same value unless the user kept refreshing for
longer than six minutes...