PHP random quote generator

In this post, you will learn how to generate random quote in PHP programming language.

Some websites show random quotes to their visitors on different pages. This is generally used on websites like press releases, speech or news stories, as good quotes can help us enhance our credibility. It requires storing the contents of quotes either in an array or in a text file. Here, we have mentioned both ways of displaying a random quote.

PHP Random Quote Generator 1

Suppose we have a text file 'quotes.txt' that contains contexts of quotes.

Place the first quote 
Place the second quote
Place the third quote 
Place the fourth quote 
Place the fivth quote 
Place the sixth quote 

The given code loads the contents of the file and arbitrarily shows a line from it. You can utilise this to show an arbitrary statement on a page each time it loads.

<?php
$file= "quotes.txt";
$quotes = file($file);
srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$randomquote = rand(0, count($quotes)-1);
echo $quotes[$randomquote];
?>

Here is a sample output -

Place the second quote

PHP Random Quote Generator 2

In the given PHP code, we have stored the quotes in an array and used the rand() method to randomly display only one at a time. This code generates a random quote every time the page loads.

<?php  
  $quotes[] = 'Place the first quote ';
  $quotes[] = 'Place the second quote';
  $quotes[] = 'Place the third quote ';
  $quotes[] = 'Place the fourth quote ';
  $quotes[] = 'Place the fivth quote ';

  srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
  $random_number = rand(0,count($quotes)-1);

  echo ($quotes[$random_number]);
?>

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