Question

$message doesn’t seem to be displaying anything.

I have the following code:

<?php
$files = glob("testimonials/*.txt");
$filename = $files[rand(0, count($files)-1)];
$lines = file($filename);
$author = array_shift($lines);
$message = explode("", $lines);
?>

<h1>Testimonial</h1>
<p><b>Author:</b> <?php echo $author; ?></p>
<?php echo $message; ?>

In my testimonials folder, I have text files with author name one the first line, then the message on the lines directly under that.

What am I missing here to make this work correctly?

Answer 1

Try This:

<?php
$files = glob("testimonials/*.txt");
                 //mt_rand is more random
$filename = $files[mt_rand(0, count($files)-1)];

$lines = file($filename);
//Get authors name
$author=$lines[0];
/*Glue the whole $lines array into a string & remove the author,
  so whats left is just the message*/
$message=str_replace($author,'',implode(' ',$lines));
?>

<h1>Testimonial</h1>
<p><b>Author:</b> <?php echo $author; ?></p>
<?php echo $message; ?>