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[ambershee]

Evening all. I'm having problems implementing my PHP includes for my updated website layout. I'm not exactly versed in PHP, so it'd be nice if someone can point out the dodgyness of my coding.
The code is simple, I'm trying to firstly, get includes to appear in my pages in a similar fashion, as well as a more adventurous random include piece. It should be quite simple, but it appears to not be working properly, and very tempramental.
The layout itself needs a little bit of work (just a bit of formatting, lol).

Anyway, there are a few files on the FTP that have been used as a test bed, but it's essentially my random includes that don't work, and example of which is below;

INDEX - All includes look like the one below...

<?php @include ("subnews.php"); ?>

DBLORE.PHP - One of the randoms that doesn't seem to work properly; selection only - it's quite long otherwise !

<?
//	include ('dblore.php');     //


$dblore = array();
$dblore[0] = "<font face="Verdana" size="1">The original David Hunter 2 concept was a psychic featuring, sword wielding stealth-em-up";
$dblore[1] = "<font face="Verdana" size="1">David Hunter 2's original psychics were either Biomancers, Telepaths, Pyromancers or Telekinetics";
$dblore[2] = "<font face="Verdana" size="1">Death of a Hero was originally a one man effort to mod Delta Force. It failed.";
$dblore[3] = "<font face="Verdana" size="1">Reactive Principle concepts originally features nearly 1000 different ship types";
$dblore[4] = "<font face="Verdana" size="1">At one point, a David Hunter style CCG was in the making. It might come back one day";
$dblore[5] = "<font face="Verdana" size="1">David Hunter features a customiseable CFG or Config file which allows players to customise more";

[i]...This keeps on going for sometime, and then this is banged on the end[/i]

$count = count($dblore) - 1;
$num = rand(32,$count);
echo $dblore[$num];
?>

So where's my mistake?

[Mastermind]

Replace rand(32, $count) with rand(0, $count). The arguments for rand are rand($min, $max), so you wouldn't get what you want at all with 32 as the minimum.

To see the problem with your includes, use just include instead of @include, as the @ supresses any errors.

[ambershee]

Cheers, I'll give it a wiz when I get back from the pub

[Kravvitz]

You didn't escape the inner double quotes.

$dblore[0] = "<font face=[b]\"Verdana\" size=\"1\"[/b]>The original David Hunter 2 concept was a psychic featuring, sword wielding stealth-em-up";

This is a bit old, but much of what it says is relevant -- What's wrong with the FONT element?

You should use CSS instead of the <font> element.

Edited by Kravvitz, 04 October 2005 - 03:08 AM.