Daily Script

[TheBoss]

Hi,

I would like to able to add a script on my webpage that displays a fact every 24 hours. I know there are quite a few of these when searching, but they do not deal with what I want.

I want a script that reads the current date in a text file and displays the fact associated with it.

In the text file, it would be displayed like this:

31/05/2012 This is the fact 1
01/06/2012 This is the fact 2
02/06/2012 This is the fact 3
03/06/2012 This is the fact 4

I would have a fact for every day.

Is this possible ?

Thanks
TheBoss

[Nullsig]

Yes but you will need to format your text file slightly different

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31/05/2012|This is the fact 1
01/06/2012|This is the fact 2
02/06/2012|This is the fact 3
03/06/2012|This is the fact 4


Once you have formatted the file like this you just read line by line and explode each line on the "|". Then compare the first element of the exploded line with the current date (formatted using d-m-Y) and if there is a match you display the second element of the line.

[TheBoss]

I am new to this php and understand very little how to code this type of script.

[Nullsig]

You won't really learn much with me handing you the script either though....

Read up on these functions (use php.net):
fopen - used to open files
explode - used to turn strings into arrays using a separator
date - generates a formatted date according to given format
strtotime - takes a given string and returns number of seconds since epoch
fgets - grabs a line of text from an open file
echo - outputs text to the browser

[HopelessCode]

Um. Why not just check it with a cronjob, and then retrieve a quote from a mysql database, cache the result and boom?