[thelist] Fortune in Linux

Ritwik Patra patra at vsnl.com
Tue Feb 5 09:47:00 CST 2002


Dear Anthony,

We could solve the problem of getting fortune quotes in webpage. We
could do it through this by a php script:

echo exec("/usr/games/./fortune");

We have also added it in our Nuke based homepage of INTRANET by adding
the following in the message function of mainfile.php (as "Quote For
The Moment"):

echo passthru("/usr/games/./fortune");

Thank you all for your help.

Ritwik Patra

On 2 Feb 2002 at 17:27, Anthony Baratta wrote:

> Which language do you want to do this in? I think you might be able to do
> it with SSI, but you'll better luck with Perl or PHP, IMHO.
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> Anthony Baratta
> President
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