I Need Help With A PHP Script

Right I happen to have 3 years experience with PHP, and alot more in C/C++ which is what PHP tries to emulate, but like SBU has said what exactly is your problem, and like he has said knowing and understand a problem is one of the major pitfalls of software engineering today. Its hard to tell you what to do when I don't know what you want,

pojutime,

This is a trivial task - if you read my post on this, I said I will do it for you only if you agree to put a link back to my website. FYI - you can put all your quotes on different lines in a txt file and use the fget() function in php to call them randomly.

Offer some money and you will get a solution in 24 hours. 

Pojutime, you are going back and forth with this - random or sequential is no wahala, it's either

1. You pay for it - then everything becomes yours
2. You link back to my site and said the script was developed by me
3. I host the script and you link to it

Which do you prefer?

Who ever ends up doing this, if you MUST use a file then please use .xml

If you decide to go the database route in the end you can easy import xml files into most databases.

This seems rather straight forward :
Form takes in the quote. Perhaps with author field.

Writes it to the file in format
<quote>
    <author>name</author>
    <text>quote text</author>
</quote>

And you parse that back, into an array, perhaps 2d array.
And use simple rand() to select an array index (also include mod sizeof array so you do not go out of bounds).

I don't think pojutime is serious about this script. Let someone do it for you for free and you give the person the credit, pay for it and have the code for yourself - simple matter

Seun - I gave him 2 options.

1. I do it for free but you give me your word that you will credit the work to me by displaying my website link on the site you will host the page
2. I build it for you for a small fee and you use it as you like, you don't have to give me any credit or link to my site

the solution

Well, just say when.

so what are we waiting for?

oasis,

I doubt if pojutime is serious about this script, to tell you the truth, I have lost interest in this particular thread. Rather - I am concentrating my effort on starting a php tutorial, please assist if you have any php experience.

To anyone that has some php skills, let us start a php tutorial, I will put one up tonight.

I think I have a script that can do this,  I've been really busy,  Also I wish this guy can tell us more about what he really want to do with this script,

To do what you are saying here's one way to do it

-- you need a way to keep track of the visitors -- since no login is required, cookie will be the best option but if the user delete their cookie  you may not be able to show them a different file if they come back within 24 hours

-- use a fixed naming conversion for the files E.G file1.txt, file2.txt , 

--php has a function you can use to get certain type of file that match the pettern  you want E.G you can get all text files  in a directory , The name of this function is called   "glob"   ,  check php manual

-- now you will start by first checking if the user visited your site in the last 24 hours
  This can be done by installing a cookie that has date and time information in it , then you try to read this cookie when someone visit your site,  if the cookie is not there , this maybe their first time so you install the cookie. then display the default file ,  or it may be that they deleted their cookie or their last visit expired.

-- also you can save the name of the file the person viewed the last time they visited your site,  you can do this by adding the file number only ,  that means instead of adding file1.txt  you will enter 1

--- your cookie value might look like this    date-time-file_number,file_number

-- when you read this cookie back you can use a function in php called "explode" This function allows you to break up a string at a set point in this case the point will be  ( -  ) hyphen ,  This will allow you  to read the date, time and file numbers separately.

,  Not sure if this helped you?

If you are a php programmer this might give you a clue but if you are not a php programmer then you may need to wait for the script,  My issue with your request is not money I can give you the script free ,   I wish you could give more information about what you really want .