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RandomQuoteWiki

Summary: How to display a random quote from a list stored in a PmWiki page
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Prerequisites: requires at least PmWiki version: 2.0; last tested on PmWiki version: 2.0.0
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Maintainer: cda (other recipes)
Categories: Administration

Question

How can I display a random quote from a list stored in a PmWiki page, and not from a flat file that I cannot access easily ?

Answer

Copy RandomQuoteWiki.phpΔ to the cookbook directory and add include_once("cookbook/RandomQuoteWiki.php"); to config.php.

Notes and Comments

This script adds two markups (:RandomQuoteWiki_quote:) and (:RandomQuoteWiki_author:) that contain a random quote stored in a pmwiki page (instead of a flat file that cannot be accessed by most users).

The quotes must be structured like 

    <quotes>
       <quote>
          <text>quote text 1</text>
          <author> quote author 1</author>
       </quote>
       <quote>
          <text>quote text 2</text>
          <author>quote author 2</author>
       </quote>
       ...
    </quotes>

See Also

The latest version is available here.

Contributors

Christophe David original script