PHP random quote generator

In this article, you will learn a very simple code to generate random quote in PHP that generates a random quote every time the page loads.

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

Random Quote Generator 1

Suppose, we have a text file 'quotes.txt' that contain 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 utilize 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

Random Quote Generator 2

In the given example, we have stored the quotes in an array and used the rand() method to randomly display only one at a time.

<?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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