Random Quotes in Signature -- Changing text

[zver]

Hi

I don't know if this is in the right topic. But I have seen Highway of Life's posts, and in his signature there is a different text at every post. You will se if Highway of Life will post twice here.

I think that effect is cool, and I would like to reproduce it. But I need help. SO I decided to post here and see the results.

[Highway of Life]

Its a random changing signature.

Here is how I do it.
I create a new PHP file, and I place a bunch of quotes in it, each quote is on a newline.
I then split it line-by-line, and randomly pick one of the lines.
I send the content type to be javascript, and print the result of the random quote.

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<?php
$quotes = 'Lots of
quotes';
$split_array = explode("\n", $quotes);
$rand_keys = array_rand($split_array, 10);
header("Content-type: application/x-javascript");
echo "<!--\n";
//echo 'document.write("' . $split_array[$rand_keys] . '");' . "\n";
echo 'var Quote = new Array()' . "\n";
foreach ($rand_keys as $i => $value)
{
    echo 'Quote[' . $i . '] = \'' . $split_array[$rand_keys[$i]] . '\';' . "\n";
}
echo 'var Q = Quote.length;
var whichQuote = Math.round(Math.random() * (Q - 1));
function showQuote()
{
    document.write(Quote[whichQuote]);
}
showQuote();' . "\n";
echo '-->';
?>

I save the file as a PHP file with the name: 7_signature.php, and place it anywhere in my webroot directory.
Then I created a new BBCode:
BBCode:

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[signature]{NUMBER}[/signature]

HTML:

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<script type="text/javascript" src="./path/to/scripts/{NUMBER}_signature.php"></script>

And then in my signature, I use:

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[signature]7[/signature]

Thats it!!
And I get:
Now everytime you reload this page, you will get a new quote.

[Synaptic Anarchy Syn]

Heh.

I wonder how hard that'd be to make available to any member of a site.

[Synaptic Anarchy Syn]

BBCode:

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[signature]{NUMBER}[/signature]

HTML:

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<script type="text/javascript" src="./path/to/scripts/{U}/{NUMBER}_signature.php"></script>

and give each user their own directory and a UCP module that allows them to enter lines in a textfield that writes to the file on submission...

[zver]

Isn't working :-(

I did as you said, but instead of text I got blank textarea. Nothing was there.

[A_Jelly_Doughnut]

[quote]$quotes = "quotes must
be enclosed in double quotes.
If they are not,
explode(\"\n\", \$quotes) will
fail."[/code]

[zver]

Hi,

That's what I have:
forum root/1_signature.php

Spoiler:

$quotes =
"try"
"test";
$split_array = explode("\n", $quotes);
$rand_keys = array_rand($split_array, 1);

header("content-type: application/x-javascript");
echo "<!--\n
document.write('{$split_array[$rand_keys]}');\n
//-->";

BBcode

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[signature]{NUMBER}[/signature]

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<script type="text/javascript" src="./{NUMBER}_signature.php"></script>

[A_Jelly_Doughnut]

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$message =
"try
test";

You should have gotten a PHP parse error with the previous script...

[kingmob Panagiotis]

In 7_signature.php place a <?php in the begin of the file and ?> in the end

@Highway
It's possible to add smilies in the signature? Or tags like [im g], [url ]?

EDIT: find it. they work with

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<img src=""> & <a href="link">Name</a>

tags

Edit 2: For quote in two lines place a <br>

[King Cobra Richie]

Its a random changing signature.

Here is how I do it.
I create a new PHP file, and I place a bunch of quotes in it, each quote is on a newline.
I then split it line-by-line, and randomly pick one of the lines.
I send the content type to be javascript, and print the result of the random quote.

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$quotes = 'lots of quotes
on multiple lines';
$split_array = explode("\n", $quotes);
$rand_keys = array_rand($split_array, 1);

header("content-type: application/x-javascript");
echo "<!--\n
document.write('{$split_array[$rand_keys]}');\n
//-->";    

I save the file as a PHP file with the name: 7_signature.php, and place it anywhere in my webroot directory.
Then I created a new BBCode:
BBCode:

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[signature]{NUMBER}[/signature]

HTML:

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<script type="text/javascript" src="./path/to/scripts/{NUMBER}_signature.php"></script>

And then in my signature, I use:

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[signature]7[/signature]

Thats it!!
And I get:
Now everytime you reload this page, you will get a new quote.

I would love to use this on my forum but the problem I have is that my web host told me this about your script, when I tried it & got an error message
Forbidden! You don't have permission to access /adm/index.php on this server.
The problem here is that by removing the offending rule, any user could use that BBCode to inject malicious code.
Is there a work around or another way to do this so that I can have random quotes in my signature?