How to display random link on page refresh

dekadent30

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I need to display random link from list (in txt file) on my wp blog's sidebar on every page refresh . How to do that in PHP? Or maybe you know any plugin? List of urls will be big - 5k-10k urls

 

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• #2

You could write all the links in a text file, one per line.
Then use the function to read text files in PHP, and display the value of a random line with

Code:

rand(1, 5000);

Hope this helps! I have no time to write up the code atm

 

codemaker

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• #3

PHP:

<?php $f_contents = file("list.txt"); $line = $f_contents[array_rand ($f_contents)]; echo $line; ?>

should do the work, it's just missing a bit of formatting.
There are few plugins that could help you - but would prolly slow down the site.
Test the code above please, and let me know how/if it works, and we can work from there.

 

dekadent30

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I tried this code but it displays my blog url instead of random link. Where i should upload list.txt file? To the same folder where sidebar.php (of specific theme) is placed? Or to the main wordpress folder with index file?

 

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dekadent30 said:

I tried this code but it displays my blog url instead of random link. Where i should upload list.txt file? To the same folder where sidebar.php (of specific theme) is placed? Or to the main wordpress folder with index file?

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In wp-content/uploads

 

dekadent30

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I wrote php code in sidebar.php (link should display on sidebar of blog) so should i write full path to wp-content/upload/2021/list.txt ?