Geek : PHP Fortune

A simple and elegant way to provide the UNIX 'Fortune' on your web page is to use the PHP passthru function, like so:

passthru("/usr/games/fortune -s");

...or...

passthru("/usr/local/bin/fortune -s");

...depending on your distribution. The '-s' flag stands for "short", which ensures your fortunes are short and sweet, and won't screw up your page layout. However, depending on the character set you use, you might also want to put that output inside of <pre> tags, or an htmlentities() function to prevent garbage characters from displaying.

wow, great idea!!
I wish I thought of that!!
Seeing as I'm such a brilliant code-monkey
hahahahahahhaha

oh yeah -- thanks to e-d0uble for the tip!

A more platform-independant fortune-program can be found at http://aasted.org/quote/ .

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