explode() help needed

[marcus]

Ok, I'm having trouble exploding text from my file facts.txt

[code]
<?
$r = rand(1,1);
$f = explode("*",facts.txt);
echo $f[$r];
?>
[/code]

what am i doing wrong?

[kenrbnsn]

You have to read the file first. What are you trying to do?

Ken

[marcus]

I am trying to explode text from the file.

Would I have to do

[code]
<?
$file = fopen("facts.txt","r");
$f = explode("*",$file);
$r = rand(1,1);
echo $f[$r];
?>
[/code]

[kenrbnsn]

Explode() takes a string as it's second parameter. In your script, the variable $file is a file handle not a string. From the description of what you want to do, it looks like you file contains works seperated by the "*" character and you want to select one at random.

Try this:
[code]<?php
$fc = file_get_contents('facts.txt'); //read the contents of the file into a string
$fc_array = explode('*',$fc); // create the array
echo $fc_array[array_rand($fc_array)]; // use the function array_rand() to get a random index in the $fc_array array.
?>[/code]

Ken

[marcus]

Thanks Ken, works beautifully!