is there some kind of script that will let me display text from a text text.txt document on a single php file.

Do you mean something like file_get_contents?

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yeah something like that i think
example: i have a php file named"index.php" on the same directory i have a text document called "text.txt" when i visit the index.php page it gets a random quote from the text.txt file. this is the php code that i put on the index.php file for it to display a random text.txt file
<?php
// En: Begin PHP Code / Fr: Debut code PHP
/************************************************** ****************************\
* Random Text Version 1.0 *
* Copyright 2000 Frederic TYNDIUK (FTLS) All Rights Reserved. *
* E-Mail: tyndiuk@ftls.org Script License: GPL *
* Created 02/28/2000 Last Modified 02/28/2000 *
* Scripts Archive at: http://www.ftls.org/php/ *
************************************************** *****************************/
/************************************************** *****************************/
// Necessary Variables:

$RANDOM_TXT_FILE = "text.txt";
// En: Absolute path and name to file contain sentances text.
// Fr: Chemin absolu (complet) et Nom du fichier contenat les phrases.

// End Necessary Variables section
/************************************************** ****************************/

srand((double)microtime()*1000000);

if (file_exists($RANDOM_TXT_FILE)) {
$arry_txt = preg_split("/--NEXT--/", join('', file($RANDOM_TXT_FILE)));
echo $arry_txt[rand(0, sizeof($arry_txt) -1)];
} else {
echo "Error: can't open $RANDOM_IMG_FILE file";
}

// En: End PHP Code
// Fr: Fin code PHP
?>



this is the text on the text.txt file

this is another random text
--NEXT--
this is a random text.
--NEXT--



so i want no to display a random text i want it to be able to see the next text like in another webpage. maybe using that kind of url that is automatically generated by php strings

hope it is more clearly

You can do it something like this.
for example you have 20 lines in your text.txt.

echo end($file) prints the last line of it.

Hello World is right, you can do that much simpler and without the --NEXT-- separators. You could use the following. Where the items in the array is your text document loaded with the file function, as in Hello World's example ($aDocument = file('myTextDocument.txt');).

The file function merely creates an array which has been explode'd on the line breaks -- new lines.

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but the next quote will be loaded on another web page??
because i want to display all of the quotes on separate pages. not ramdon. in order. in one page a quote on the next page the next quote

Set a $_GET variable in the URL and then use that index in conjunction with the $aDocument[] variable.

So, for instance, although insecurely:

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The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out.

i downloaded the file and uploaded to mmy server and it worked just what i wanted but instead of putting the this text
"'TalkPHP.com loves Wildhoney',
'TalkPHP.com loves Salathe',
'TalkPHP.com loves Village Idiot',
'TalkPHP.com loves Chikooo'"

on the php script how do i put it on a separate text.txt file

Just substitute the array for the file function and all will be well.

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The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out.

that is just what i needed. thank you. you are really good at this. thank you so much

do you know how to take the previous link out on the first page. because on the first page there is not previous quote. and on the last one, how to take the next link out on the last quote