On 4/5/2011 7:07 AM, Kirk Bailey wrote: > OK gang, to spew a single line from a file of fortune cookies, I want to read it > and echo one line. While I found a 4 line code which gets it done, I thought > there was a preexisting command to do exactly that. Any feedback on this? > No, but it can be done in one line: <?php echo array_rand(@file(@$filename), 1); # if you wanted to do a couple checks, you could do the following if ( is_file(@$filename) && filesize($filename) > 0 ) echo array_rand(file($filename), 1); ?> Jim Lucas -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
