displaying text from random files

[kawnz]

I have a number of text files with comments from people, and I'd like to call them randomly to a page.

I have put all the comment files into one directory so I can call them up from that one directory. The reason I want to work with text files, is because there will be 60-odd people sending in these comment files and I don't want them to have to do anything more difficult than uploading a file.

How can I randomly display one of these files and have the font style applied to the text that is in one of these files?

 

[DRJ478]

1. Read in the directory contents. (check the PHP documentation

http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/ref.dir.php)

2. Use array_rand to pick a random file name. (see

http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/function.array-rand.php)

That should solve the selection problem.

As for the text style I recommend CSS.
Load the file contents (see

http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php)

and enclose it into a SPAN tag.

print('<span class=&quot;commentStyle&quot;>'.$theCommentText.'</span>');

Link the created page with a <link> tag to a predefined CSS.