[althalus]

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i'm looking for a script (preferably php, as i'm starting to learn) that would spew out a few lines of different text depending on the day and month. been browsing and searching the net for an hour now but couldn't find anything useful.

i'm guessing i'd need a database for this? i have one, but i'm not very very good at handling it (noob). either that or the script would be very big, i guess?

hmm.. anyway, if anyone could help me i'd be grateful

thank you
/al

[Godsmack]

Did you check out the scripts on this site under PHP -> Quote Display. Here is the link:

http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Script...lay/index.html

Hope this helps.
Randy

[althalus]

hmm it seems like they are all just posting stuff (quotes) randomly though.

what i want is a script that would display a snip of text (info about the day but different year, basically) which would look something like:

september 11
19xx - something happened
19yy - something else happened
20zz - yet something else happened

i'm not great at explaining, but i'm sure you understand?

thank you
/al

[jewellgr]

You will need a database for that unless only have a few hundered entries.
Then, you could get away with a csv file database.

[althalus]

i was thinking about it some today, and maybe would i somehow be able to use a .txt-file with the text written as:

20030912, text here text here
20030913, text here text here

and so on? and have a script somehow extract the data depending on the first numbers (the date). i don't know.

otherwise, could you give any information on how to deal with the database?

thank you


added: i re-read your post, what is a csv database?

[clay@lazarusid.com]

althalus,

Why you just demonstrated was a csv database. It's definitely something that could be managed as a simple text file, because the structure of the data isn't likely to change. You do get yourself limited as to the length of your entries though.

That's something you could probably do yourself, and would make a good learning project. There is some merit to storing the data in a database though, because pretty quickly it will get very large.

[althalus]

i guess i could edit the file now and then and remove dates that had already been displayed.

ok then, moving on. where would i begin with such a script? is there anywhere on this site i could look for a "php-school"? i'm not great at looking up stuff myself so any "starting" guidelines would be appretiated.

thank you

[althalus]

i was browsing this site some and found the tips & tricks section. looked through it and found a link leading to this page:
http://www.netlogger.net/downloads/example/index.php

maybe could i somehow modify the script so that instead of name, weight and city, it would look for the date and only that, and present the text? just one question, how could i 'break out' of the table? is it possible?

[clay@lazarusid.com]

althalus,

Where to start? First, reconsider how you manage the data. The date column shouldn't be the date you want to print something out. It should be the date that the event occurred. Then you scan through your list for any date that matches the month and day, but not the year. You can process a really big list line by line using this technique, and it won't be a big burden on the server.

[althalus]

i managed to re-create the script from the page (just to have something to start with).

now, the next thing (and probably the last?) thing i need help with would be how i would have it check *today's* date. is there a simple way of implementing it into the script?

as i said, i am a n00b and i don't know a whole lot about php (other than it's harder than html ) i am determined to learn it "fully" at some stage, but right now i don't have the time for it, sadly.