Thanks for your responses guys. I got it to work. Ron
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From: Ron Piggott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: PHP DB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 2:00 PM
Subject: Displaying Text From A Data File
> I am still new to PHP and I wanted to ask a question.
>
"Ron Piggott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I am still new to PHP and I wanted to ask a question.
>
> I am wanting to create a PHP script to randomly display one of many
greeting
> messages on my web site. I was going to store them in a text based file.
I
> wanted P
If it were a database, this would make sense. He's asking about a text-
based file. This isn't really a database issue -- there's a lot of what
are called "fortune scripts" out there that do exactly what you want.
Do a search on Google.
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Peter Ellis - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Design and Developme
It's actually very simple : Just use
SELECT * FROM tbl_name ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1
Cheers - Neil
At 17:35 04/09/2004 +, you wrote:
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Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 14:00:56 -0400
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