Word of the Day

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using a text file display a word or phrase for the day. Uses the line number for the current day.


This text file contains all of the words/phrases that will

be displayed on a certain day. This should have only one item/phrase

per line.



Example:

words.txt




Take me out to the ball game

Take me out to the park

Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks

I don't care if we ever get back

Root, root, root for the home team

If they don't win its a shame

For its one, two, three strikes your out

at the old ball game.

WofD.php




<?php

    function wordofday(){

        $filename = "words.txt";

        $handle = fopen($filename, "r");

        $contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));

        fclose($handle);

        $array = explode("\n",$contents);

        $date = date("z");

        if($date > count($array)){

            return $array[0];

        }else{

            return $array[$date];

        }

    }

    

    echo '<p>&nbsp;</p><p>'.wordofday().'</p>';

?>

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2011-06-22 20:04:09

This pulls all the great information out of this word file. You did such a great job with this. I will be using this at work.

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2010-09-14 00:31:07

it\'s ok. we just need the output but not the fucntion process. Good scripts.

Sam Yong
2009-07-25 00:00:00

yep i agree with matthew. you could have used mt_rand() or date('w')

Matthew
2008-08-21 00:00:00

date('z') returns the current day of the year (0-365).

The above example words.txt would only display different text for the first 7 days of the year, and then default to just displaying the first.

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