Random quote help

[JDJones]

I'm using the following to generate a random quote on a PHP page and it
works fine:

<?php
$quotes[] = 'quote #1';
$quotes[] = 'quote #2';
$quotes[] = 'quote #3';
$quotes[] = 'etc...';

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

echo ($quotes[$random_number]);
?>
My question is how can I modify this so that it would show a single
quote but only every 10th time the page was called? I searched Google to
see if there was a premade script that would do this but all I could
find were ones like I'm already using.

Thanks.

[Per Gustafsson]

JDJones wrote:

I'm using the following to generate a random quote on a PHP page and
it works fine:

<?php
$quotes[] = 'quote #1';
$quotes[] = 'quote #2';
$quotes[] = 'quote #3';
$quotes[] = 'etc...';

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

echo ($quotes[$random_number]);

My question is how can I modify this so that it would show a single
quote but only every 10th time the page was called? I searched Google
to see if there was a premade script that would do this but all I
could find were ones like I'm already using.

If you want this random you can simply use rand(0,9) == 0 or so, if you
want it to be exactly every 10th time you need to write to a text file
or a database. A quite simple task using fopen(), fwrite(), fread() etc.
Per Gustafsson

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[Randell D.]

"JDJones" <wv***@netscape.net> wrote in message
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I'm using the following to generate a random quote on a PHP page and it
works fine:

<?php
$quotes[] = 'quote #1';
$quotes[] = 'quote #2';
$quotes[] = 'quote #3';
$quotes[] = 'etc...';

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

echo ($quotes[$random_number]);
?>
My question is how can I modify this so that it would show a single
quote but only every 10th time the page was called? I searched Google to
see if there was a premade script that would do this but all I could
find were ones like I'm already using.

Thanks.

I suggest a cookie or session or keeping track in a file if you want it
exactly every ten times - if you're not bothered too bothered, you could
divide the hour by ten and if the current minute fits between one of two
values, use that to make your selection - that way a page refresh would
pretty much get you the same value unless the user kept refreshing for
longer than six minutes...