Mini Mods - Sideblock Random Quotes

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Instructions:

Forums & Moderators/Forum Blocks Manager/Add new block

Select Block Type: Custom HTML/PHP
Title: Random Quotes
Content Type: HTML

Content

<center><font size="1"> 
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<script type="text/javascript"> 
//store the quotations in arrays 
quotes = new Array(); 
authors = new Array(); 
quotes[0] = "I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."; 
authors[0] = "Charles Schulz"; 
quotes[1] = "Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it."; 
authors[1] = "Jack Wagner"; 
quotes[2] = "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."; 
authors[2] = "Mark Twain"; 
quotes[3] = "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."; 
authors[3] = "Oscar Wilde"; 
quotes[4] = "There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting."; 
authors[4] = "David Letterman"; 
quotes[5] = "Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain."; 
authors[5] = "Lily Tomlin"; 
quotes[6] = "Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk. "; 
authors[6] = "Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider"; 
quotes[7] = "Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? " 
authors[7] = "George Price "; 

quotes[8] = "Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."; 
authors[8] = "John Russell"; 

quotes[9] = "I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.."; 
authors[9] = "Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)"; 

quotes[10] = "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."; 
authors[10] = "Bill Watterson"; 

quotes[11] = "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."; 
authors[11] = "G. H. Hardy"; 

quotes[12] = "An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."; 
authors[12] = "Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)"; 

quotes[13] = "When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page."; 
authors[13] = "Bill Clinton"; 

quotes[14] = "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true."; 
authors[14] = "Robert Wilensky"; 

quotes[15] = "The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."; 
authors[15] = "William Gibson"; 

quotes[16] = "Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him."; 
authors[16] = "Bible, Old Testament"; 

quotes[17] = "People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."; 
authors[17] = "A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)"; 

quotes[18] = "USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population."; 
authors[18] = "David Letterman"; 

quotes[19] = "Rock music journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read."; 
authors[19] = "Frank Zappa"; 

quotes[20] = "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."; 
authors[20] = "Gore VIdal"; 

quotes[21] = "I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."; 
authors[21] = "Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)"; 

quotes[22] = "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."; 
authors[22] = "Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)"; 

quotes[23] = "Deeds, not words shall speak me."; 
authors[23] = "John Fletcher (1579 - 1625)"; 

quotes[24] = "Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."; 
authors[24] = "Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)"; 

quotes[25] = "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."; 
authors[25] = "Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)"; 

quotes[26] = "If everything's under control, you're going too slow. "; 
authors[26] = "-- Mario Andretti "; 

quotes[27] = "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."; 
authors[27] = "- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "; 

quotes[28] = "MG is the bomb" 
authors[28] = "gearhead"; 

//calculate a random index 
index = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length); 

//display the quotation 
document.write("<DL>\n"); 
document.write("<DT>" + "\"" + quotes[index] + "\"\n"); 
document.write("<DD>" + "-- " + authors[index] + "\n"); 
document.write("</DL>\n"); 

//done 
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</center> 
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[chriske]

Originally Posted by Dr.osamA

thank you mate

can we use BBcode in the code ??

installed

I hope so, I want to put a link under the quotes. how can I achieve that?

[Bouncer222]

I have a better idea...
Everytime someone applies to our community we ask them a question and would like to see their response.

So my idea is this...
a hidden bbcode around a question such as [hidden]question here : answer here [/hidden]

Then when a person copied the original questionaire and answers it in his post... the site would grab his answer and show it in a slide of quotes what they answered.

It's a pretty cool feature.
Could someone develop this PLEASE?

[Knuckles83]

I sometimes randomly get 'undefined' for both the quote and author, randomly. Any reason why?

[chriske]

Originally Posted by chriske

I hope so, I want to put a link under the quotes. how can I achieve that?

anyone?

[Bouncer222]

So I have an idea...
Each user has a custom field in their profile, and they type a quote like

"Brotherhood of Gamers- it's all about the friends"

And then this mod would randomely grab a quote from a random member to display it on a page on each load, OR BETTER YET... have it rotate after it shows for a couple of seconds.

How would i accomplish this? could someone help me please?

[sticky]

Any demo or pic of this in action?

[Front Range 4x4]

This works but it would be great if it was modified for random pics from albums.

[webmastersitesi]

Is there any working sample for this?

[Sablehawk]

This works ok ... unfortunately I cannot get it to make much of a database. I can use a total of 11 quotes. If I put more than that it just won't work for me.

[doc fluty]

Originally Posted by Knuckles83

I sometimes randomly get 'undefined' for both the quote and author, randomly. Any reason why?

I get this also.

Also when I put a lot of quotes in there.. it doesn't work.

is there an update for this or some other way of doing the same thing?

Thanks!