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Old Feb 23rd, 2005, 2:00 PM   #6
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Put them all in a file, putting each quote on a new line...

[php]
function getQuote($file) {
$file = implode("", file($file));
$file = explode("\n", $file);
$quoteNum = rand(0, count($file) -1);
return array("number" = >$quoteNum + 1, "quote" => $file[$quoteNum]);
}
[/php]

Example usage:
[php]
$newQuote = getQuote("yourQuotesFile.txt");
echo "Quote #{$newQuote['number']}:<br>\n";
echo "<ul>";
echo $newQuote["quote"];
echo "</ul>";
[/php]
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