Question

What I’m attempting to do is create a simple “Quote of the Day” script. What this needs to do is be able to read from a simple .txt file, grab each entry per line and output the contents of that line, once per day. For example, if a .txt file had the following text:

This is the quote of the day
This is another quote of the day
This is the last quote of the day

Then, the script would grab the first block of text, This is the quote of the day and output it on the site. It would then cycle through, line by line, based on each incremental day until the end (and then cycle back to the beginning). Hopefully this would just allow people to cut/paste new info in as it would rely on line numbers, not the content itself.

If anyone even knows of a .XML implementation of this – it would be a big help – trying to figure out the simplest way of going about this. Thanks!

Answer 1

Assuming you had a file with 365 lines (one line per the current day)…

$lines = file("quotes.txt");
$day = date("z");
echo $lines[$day];