Using PHP in chunks and snippets

- 13 Posts
posword Reply #1, 18 years, 8 months ago
I have three lines of PHP code I use to produce random text from flat files in my branding (header) and content at my current site peterwade.com.

How do I incorporate these in a chunk or snippet? Do I enclose them in normal PHP tages <?php ?> or just paste them in?

~~~~~~
```
        $quote = file("inchrist.txt");
	srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
	$inquote = $quote[rand(1,count($quote))];	
```
~~~~~~

And how do I call them, e.g. <?php $inquote ?> ?

Thanks,
Peter
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carlholmberg Reply #2, 18 years, 8 months ago
PHP-code goes into a snippet.

Create a new snippet (I’ll call it "HeaderSnip"). Paste your code block into the code-area between the PHP-tags. In your template (or in a chunk/in the content) call your snippet with:
```
[!HeaderSnip]]
```
The exclamation point is there so it doesn’t cahce the result (your code seemed to imply that it should be run on every reload).