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My guess is this won't work for Ed as he uses AOL. Not to mention the
fact that many places won't let you submit cron jobs.
Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
>
> Ed Jones (edboxer@aol.com) wrote:
> > I have a file of quotes (an HTML Table) that I want to use on one of my
> > webpages. However, I want only one quote to display randomly when a page is
> > accessed. Anyone have a Java or other applet for this they could share?
>
> What about using SSI[1] or something like that to include a
> file with the quote, and then update the file one an hour
> with a cron job?
>
> You could also let the cron job put together the actual page
> people download if you don't want to use SSI.
>
> Here's how I would implement it:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> -- Script to update page with quote.
> --
> -- Quotes are stored in files named:
> -- quote/1
> -- quote/2
> -- ...
> --
> -- The part of the page preceding the quote is stored in:
> -- page.before_quote
> --
> -- The part of the page after the quote is stored in:
> -- page.after_quote
>
> #!/bin/tcsh
>
> set last_quote=`cat quote_index`
>
> set new_quote=`awk "BEGIN{ print $last_quote + 1 }"`
> if ( ! -e quotes/$new_quote ) set new_quote=1
>
> cat page.before_quote quotes/$new_quote page.after_quote > page.html
>
> echo $new_quote > quote_index
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> -- Crontab entry:
>
> * 0 * * * /home/boxer/bin/update_quote
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Play well,
>
> Jacob
>
> 1) SSI = Server Side Includes
>
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Paul Foster
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