Show random quote

Hello

I was wondering whether there is a snippet that would allow me to randomly show a quote on a page.

Preferably, I’d like to have all the quotes in one chunk like:

quote 1
quote 2
quote 3
quote 4

etc.

I think this is the easiest way to maintain it.

thank you in advance for pointing me to the right direction.

I know there’s a random quotes snippet on the forums, but I can’t find it.

If you separate the quotes with a delimiter ( e.g. #) all you need is something like this:

Thanks - really appreciate it

found a snippet that keeps the quotes in an external file that offers some features on how often to change the quote and stuff like that - basically nice but I still rather have the quotes in modx

Quote from: BobRay at Apr 01, 2009, 10:52 PM

I know there’s a random quotes snippet on the forums, but I can’t find it.

If you separate the quotes with a delimiter ( e.g. #) all you need is something like this:

$quotes = $modx->getChunk('quotes);

$quoteArray = explode('#',$quotes);

return (array_rand($quoteArray));

I’m getting a parsing error with the following content in my chunk:


what am I missing?

Sorry, typo on my part---I left out a quote mark:

should be

figured it out but that just returns an index number an not the text - just reading the array_rand on php.net but I didn’t figure it out yet how to return the text.

got it:



thanks again

Sorry, I forgot that array_rand() returns a key to the associative array.

Glad you got it sorted.

Quote from: BobRay at Apr 01, 2009, 10:52 PM

I know there’s a random quotes snippet on the forums, but I can’t find it.

If you still need it, the RandomQuotes snippet can be found here

Actually, for having all the quotes in a single document (as opposed to multiple documents with one quote each, which can get SUPER tedious), I’ve found the Random Paragraph snippet (http://modxcms.com/extras.html?view=package/view&repository=10&package=360) to be just perfect.

Just have each quote in a paragraph tag on your quotes page, and the snippet will pull a random one. No need for 300 different pages if you have 300 different quotes then