Script for rotating daily quote

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    I need an easy to understand script so that webpage automatically changes the daily quote. Is that possible ?
     
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  2. Bohra

    Bohra Prominent Member

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    Manually updating or fetching from some site ?
     
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    I have the quotes ( as in inspirational quote of the week) and want it changed randomly every day . At the moment i have to do it all manually and wondered if there was someway of it happening automaticaly
     
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    jitendraag Notable Member

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    You can try to setup a daily cron to change the quote.

    Just store the quotes in a file and get one line randomly (using tail if you are on unix) :)
     
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    perfect - thank you
     
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