Question

My text file format is :

This is first line.
This is second line.
This is third line.

There could be more lines in the text file. How to echo one random line on each refresh from the text file with php.
All comments are appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

A generally good approach to this kind of situation is to:

1. Read the lines into an array using file()
2. echo out a random array value using array_rand()

Your code could look something like this:

$lines = file('my_file.txt');

echo $lines[array_rand($lines)];