Random Quotes

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Random Quotes

robertpateii

Thanks for this extension! Love it. One question, though. Can I make it change quotes daily instead of randomly? What would I need to alter in the code?

The code is well documented, here's the critical bit:

// Here we split it into lines
$quotes = explode( $lineSeparator, $quotesString);
// And then randomly choose a line
$chosen = $quotes[ mt_rand(0, $i - 1 ) ];

jimw

I built a WP quotes plugin and one of the functions was a daily quote. I used the day of the year to find that one on my quotes file, assuming I had at least 365 quotes. You could loop through the quotes file:

foreach ($result as $row)
{
$remainder = $counter % $dayofyear;
if ($remainder == 0)
{
output the $row;
break;
}
}


JohnnyFive

This is cool.. Gonna hack it up I think to randomly grab quotes from the forums though, as opposed to from a text file :)