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Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself.
--Mark Twain

That quote by Mr Clemmons above set me off once again. Of course, just including the quote wasn't enough .. after all .. this is in most part, a visual medium. Gotta include a photo of the person making the quote!

This was easy and fun. Got to play with arrays, random numbers and then simply mixed them into a little HTML stew.

I set up three arrays. One for the quote ($quote), one for the quoted ($quoteauthor) and one for the graphic ($quotepic). The hardest part is probably making sure that in each array the quote, author and picture match.

$quote = array (
  "When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog.",
  "Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself.");

$quoteauthor = array (
  "--Robert A. Heinlein",
  "--Mark Twain");

$quotepic = array (
  "<img src=\"graphics/photos/quotes/heinlein.gif\" alt=\"Robert A. Heinlein\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">",
  "<img src=\"graphics/photos/quotes/mark_twain.gif\" alt=\"Mark Twain\" width=\"69\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">");

We want to pull the quotes out at random so we count the array elements, seed the random number thingie and get a random number.

// Count the number of elements in the $quote array
$quotecount = count($quote);
// Seed random
srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
// Get Random number
$RandomNumber = rand (0,$quotecount - 1);

Finally, echo it to the screen.

echo ("<table width=\"200\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"left\">");
echo ("<tr>");
echo ("<td bgcolor=\"#ACC8C5\">$quotepic[$RandomNumber] $quote[$RandomNumber]</td><td> </td>");
echo ("</tr>");
echo ("<tr><td bgcolor=\"#ACC8C5\">$quoteauthor[$RandomNumber]</td><td> </td></tr>");
echo ("</table>");

The file is simply included in the home page like so:

<?
include "quotes.php";
?>

Final Note: If you have any quotes, send 'em to me along with or with links to a pic.

Any commnents: edtrax@etraxx.com

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