PHP Daily updated links lists?

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[Par5Golf]

Hello
I have been looking for a php script to place randome links on a page on a daily basics.. from a tex file...but i can only fond this....and this is
the only one i can get to work is this one......

<?php 
// Necessary Variables: 
$RANDOM_TXT_FILE = "sample_data.txt"; 
// End Necessary Variables section 
srand((double)microtime()*1000000); 
if (file_exists($RANDOM_TXT_FILE)) { 
  $arry_txt = preg_split("/--NEXT--/", join('', file($RANDOM_TXT_FILE))); 
  echo $arry_txt[rand(0, sizeof($arry_txt) -1)]; 
} else { 
  echo "Error: can't open $RANDOM_IMG_FILE file"; 
} 
?> 

and this is the text file....

1:Line 1<BR> 
1:Line 2<BR> 
1:Line 3<BR> 
--NEXT-- 
2:Line 1<BR> 
2:Line 2<BR> 
2:Line 3<BR> 
--NEXT-- 
3:Line 1<BR> 
3:Line 2<BR> 
3:Line 3<BR> 
--NEXT-- 
4:Line 1<BR> 
4:Line 2<BR> 
4:Line 3<BR> 
--NEXT-- 
5:Line 1<BR> 
5:Line 2<BR> 
5:Line 3<BR> 
--NEXT-- 
6:Line 1<BR> 
6:Line 2<BR> 
6:Line 3<BR> 

so if i can make this work so it grabs random links on a daily basics from a text file.....i will be happy and never have a worry in my mind ever....lol

Thanks

Eric

[jatar_k]

so what exactly is it that doesn't work? Are there error messages or it doesn't open the file?

[Receptional Andy]

Try this:

<?php
$textfile ="random.txt"; // change to the filename/path of your file

$items = file("$textfile");
$item = rand(0, sizeof($items)-1);
echo $items[$item];
?>

You would need to include the href tag in the text file, or enclose the above code in href tags for the text to be a link. The random.txt file should be your links on a separate line for each.

[Par5Golf]

What i want is for the code i put in the message....but make it update daily.....not on every refreash....thats all....thanks

Eric