"Daily Tips" utility or script

TDS2599 posted this at 15:34 — 16th October 2002.

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Joined: Oct 2002

Hi everyone...

Just found this forum, and the information has been wonderful so far.

I was wondering if anyone here knows where I can find a script where I can have a text file called into one cell of a table on my page.

What I am trying to do is include a "Daily Tip" on my page, but I don't want to have to manually add it to the page each day.
Is there a script where I can place a number of text files on the server and have them called randomly each day?

I hope I am explaining myself properly.
It should sort of be like a quote of the day, but much more than one line.

Thanks in advance everyone.

Tony

The Webmistress posted this at 15:40 — 16th October 2002.

She has: 5,586 posts

Joined: Feb 2001

Welcome to TWF, glad you like it here and I hope you'll stick around. Why not stop by the Introductions Forum and tell us a bit about yourself.

Here are a few sites that offer scripts along the lines of what you want but I have never used any of them muself:

http://www.emacs.dk/quote
http://www.scriptsearch.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Random_Items/Random_Text
http://www.theory.org/~matt/perl/qotd
http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Quote_Display/more2.html
http://javascript.internet.com/messages/quote-of-the-day.html

Good luck

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