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Fortune Using PHP

It isn't much, but I wrote a PHP script that echoes sayings from fortune, which I've put up on my site.

 ?php
 # This script is licensed under the GPL, and was written in summer 2003 by:
 # Joey Kelly, http://joeykelly.net
 #
 # Here we are trying to echo a fortune to the user
 exec(/usr/bin/fortune  $filepath/fortune.tmp, $fortune, $returnvalue);
 #
 # general format for reading files
 $handle = fopen ($filepath/fortune.tmp, r);
 while (!feof ($handle)) 
   $fortune = fgets($handle, 4096);
   echo $fortune;
   echo br;

 fclose ($handle);
 #
 ?

Then you would call it in a php webpage this way:

 ?php
 $filepath = '/path/to/files';
 include($filepath/fortune.inc);
 ?