syed544 Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 I have a text file, named as "random.txt" with the content as like this: <a href=link1.html>title-1</a> <a href=link2.html>title-2</a> <a href=link3.html>title-3</a> <a href=link4.html>title-4</a> Now in my php file, I want to randomly select & display two titles (with respective link) as like this: <? $textfile ="random.txt"; $items = file("$textfile"); shuffle ($items); echo "RandLink1 : " . $items[0]; echo "<br>RandLink2 : " . $items[1]; ?> *** The result is showing as required by me. But I want to load the text file (random.txt) as like this only : link1 , title-1 link2 , title-2 link3 , title-3 link4 , title-4 If I load this text file as like above (writing only the link and title names in the file), then what will be the php code to display two random titles on the result page? Thanks for your kind help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjahkoh Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 <?php $links[] = "<a href=link1.html>title-1</a>"; $links[] = "<a href=link2.html>title-2</a>"; $links[] = "<a href=link3.html>title-3</a>"; $links[] = "<a href=link4.html>title-4</a>"; //$dbarray = mysql_fetch_array($result); /// //////////////////////////////////////////echo 'number of elements '.count($links).'<br>'; //////print_r($links); $rand_titles=array_rand($links,2); ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title><?php echo $rand_titles[0] ;?> <?php echo $rand_titles[1] ;?></title> </head> <body> </body> </html> Please mark as Solved if so. Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syed544 Posted September 14, 2011 Author Share Posted September 14, 2011 Hi mjahkoh, Thanks for replying. but unfortunately I dont need this solution which u have suggested. I think there's some misinterpretation. I request you to please read again my query. I want to use a text file "random.txt" for providing article title names (not website names) with their respective links. and instead of providing title+link in this format: <a href=link1.html>title-1</a> I want to add the content of random.txt file as like below: link1 , title-1 link2 , title-2 link3 , title-3 link4 , title-4 then, what will be the php code to display two random texts (article title with its link) in the body of the html file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xyph Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 Hopefully this helps. <?php // This is just like using $lines = file('random.txt'); $lines = array( 'link1 , title-1', 'link2 , title-2', 'link3 , title-3', 'link4 , title-4' ); // Shuffle the array shuffle($lines); // Grab the first two array entries $pieces = array_slice($lines,0,2); // Loop through those pieces foreach( $pieces as $piece ) { // $piece now holds 'linkx , title-x' // explode() turns the string into an array, divided by ' , ' // list grabs array[0] and array[1] and puts them into the variables list( $link, $title ) = explode( ' , ', $piece ); echo '(a href="'.$link.'")'.$title.'(/a)<br>'; } ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syed544 Posted September 15, 2011 Author Share Posted September 15, 2011 Hopefully this helps. bravo ! yes, it works gr8. Thanks a lot xyph. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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