How to put auto tip-of-day on my site?

by sylviad

Posted: 18 years ago 17 replies

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Hi,

I just had a brilliant idea that involves putting a tip-of-the-day on my site that changes every day. My guess is that there is some type of script that will do that.

I want to be able to load in a series of tips all at once and let it run with a schedule to change daily. It isn't a running ticker, but a static tip. Can't say I've ever seen such a product.

Does anyone know how to do that?

Thanks.

Sylvia

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Mike Montgomery

18 years ago

Originally Posted by sylviad

Easy to do if you want to put it on a wordpress blog as you could just
use the timestamp feature or a number of paid products.

Don't know though if you don't want to use a blog.

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sylviad

18 years ago

Well, I could do it on a blog but I'd rather do it on my site - or both.

I'm unfamiliar with that Timestamp on Wordpress. Will check it out.

Thanks.

Sylvia

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Simon_Sezs

18 years ago

It can be done with javascript. Go to "hot scripts" or one of the other various free script sites and yank one. I know it is out there, just can't remember where I saw it.

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Robert Plank

18 years ago

If I was smart I would put this into a product but I guess I'll give it away for free here...

Start off by making a new text file, call it tips.txt... and put each tip on one line, like this:

Code:

tip #1
tip #2
tip #3
tip #4

Then save this code (http://www.robertplank.com/tips/tips.phps) as tips.php... (I tried to post it here but the forum software wouldn't let me).

That's it. No database needed or anything. It chooses a random tip but it only changes once a day.

Just add it to your site like:

Code:

<?php require("tips.php"); ?>

if it's a PHP page or:

HTML Code:

<iframe src="tips.php" width="300" height="100"></iframe>

if you want to do an iframe.

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sylviad

18 years ago

Thank you so much, Robert!

This looks like the perfect thing - I haven't done much with scripts as this is relatively new to me. My guess is that it just gives a text tip, ie: no way to fancy it up with highlighted background.

(Am I too demanding or what?! :rolleyes

That's ok. I can make this work.

Thanks again.

Sylvia

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Robert Plank

18 years ago

You can put a box around the tip...

Code:

<div align="center">
<div style="background-color:yellow; border:black solid 5px; width:400px">
<?php require("tips.php"); ?>
</div>
</div>

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Barbara Eyre

18 years ago

I also want to thank you, Robert .... I kept meaning to look for such a script but never got around to it. It could be used for many things:

Tip of the Day
Quote of the Day
Trivia Tidbit of the Day
Whatever of the Day
etc.

I just got to remember not to go overboard with it LOL

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sylviad 18 years ago

Thanks, Robert... That's what I was thinking, too. And I can shade the box whatever color I want. Thanks for the additional code. I'm a writer. If there's anything I can do in exchange for your generosity, by all means give me a buzz.

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  sylviad 18 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Rotco
  
  Well its iframe.. Thats not good, some browsers cant see iframe
  
  If I'm reading the code right, I believe Robert has provided optional codes - one for iframe and one without.
  So you can choose whichever works best for your situation.
  
  If you use the first option, then you change your HTML extension on your page to .php - it still works the same as html in terms of running on browsers.
  
  But Robert... feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
  
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sylviad

18 years ago

Originally Posted by Barbara Eyre

Gag or Joke of the Day!

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ariyes

18 years ago

Originally Posted by Robert Plank

If I was smart I would put this into a product but I guess I'll give it away for free here...

Start off by making a new text file, call it tips.txt... and put each tip on one line, like this:

Code:

tip #1
tip #2
tip #3
tip #4

Code:

<?php require("tips.php"); ?>

if it's a PHP page or:

HTML Code:

<iframe src="tips.php" width="300" height="100"></iframe>

if you want to do an iframe.

wow wow wow its really good. thanks Robert, It's really help full for me.

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Barbara Eyre

18 years ago

I was just about to implement this and had 2 questions.

1) Can the time be adjusted to where the tip refreshes on browser load?

2) Can the tips, in the .txt file be 2 lines? I was to do questions jokes: ie.,

Why did the chicken cross the road?
Answer: To get to the other side.

(trust me - not THAT joke LOL but just used as an example) *grins*

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Robert Plank

18 years ago

1) Can the time be adjusted to where the tip refreshes on browser load?

Yeah, just remove this line: srand($hash);

2) Can the tips, in the .txt file be 2 lines? I was to do questions jokes: ie.,

Why did the chicken cross the road?
Answer: To get to the other side.

(trust me - not THAT joke LOL but just used as an example) *grins*

If you were displaying it on a web page, why not just add a <br /> to make it look like it's on many lines?

If you really want the multi-line thing, here's how to modify that code...

Instead of saying:

$tips = array_map("trim", file("tips.txt"));

You would say:

$tips = array_map("trim", explode("%%", file_get_contents("tips.txt")));

Then separate each joke with a %%

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Barbara Eyre 18 years ago

Thank you SO much, Robert.

I don't know enough about php yet to have been able to alter such.

Now off to play *wicked grin*
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- sylviad 18 years ago
  
  Thanks again, Robert.
  
  I'm keeping my eye on this thread because I see it has triggered some questions from Warriors that I hadn't thought of.
  
  Correction: ...triggered Warrior questions I hadn't thought of.
  
  Any more questions?
  
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Kym Robinson 18 years ago

the easiest thing ever!
I asked about this 2 days ago and now i have it fully loaded!

this is for WP
just google 'wordpress quote rotator plugin"
and load 'er up!
then you just add all your tips and set the time span and add it as a widget!

its great - and thatnks to those who helped me with it!
Kym
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kah22 17 years ago

Hi Robert I hate to take you back almost a year but I've just came across this post.

I'm trying to put your code into a Wordpress Blog (Brandford Magazine Theme.

I've added the two files tips.txt and tips.php into the Brandford Theme and put the following line into my sidebar.php file '<?php require("tips.php"); ?>' but I'm getting the following error messages when I check my site

Warning: file(tips.txt) [function.file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory mywebsite.com/public_html/wp-content/themes/branford with mimbo sidebar/tips.php on line 6

Any suggestions or do I need to place these files in some other wordpress directory.

Again apoligies for taking you back a year - just goes to show how far I'm behind lol
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