How to fill a textspace with random data from a text file

dragosdydy · May 11, 2013

Hello guys. I'm working on a HTML website and I'm wondering if there's any way to get random data from a TextFile and fill a TextBox with it.
This is what i want:

I have a .txt file with the following lines:

This is my 1st line of the text
This is my 2nd line of the text
This is my 3rd line of the text
This is my 4th line of the text
This is my 6th line of the text
This is my 7th line of the text

And then i have a HTML file with one TextBox. When the page loads, the text box will be filled with one random line from the .txt file.

Is there any way to do that with HTML or JavaScript? Thanks a lot.

DeJohn · May 11, 2013

You can do this if you make your page as .php , add the folowing code:

Code:

$f_contents = file("file.txt");
$line = $f_contents[array_rand($f_contents)];
$data = $line;

and echo $data in your textbox

When the page will be loaded it will automatically get a random line of your text file and add to your textbox.

Let me know if is ok for you or need to do this using JavaScript and HTML only.

dragosdydy · May 11, 2013

Yea! Thanks a lot! It works great. I've inserted the code into HTML file as i wrote below, and then saved the file to .php and everything's OK! Thank you very much!

Code:

<?PHP
$f_contents = file("file.txt");
$line = $f_contents[array_rand($f_contents)];
$data = $line;
?>

Code:

<?php echo $data; ?>

DeJohn · May 11, 2013

I am happy to know that it's ok for you, you can handle files easier with PHP.

How to fill a textspace with random data from a text file

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