[quoteoftheday]
| Link | quoteoftheday |
| Author | Jason Huck |
| Category | Utility |
| Version | 8.x |
| License | http://opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php |
| Posted | 11 Jul 2006 |
| Updated | 11 Jul 2006 |
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Description
This tag returns a map of a random quote from the QuotationsPage.com daily feed. It caches the result for 24 hours (the feed only changes daily). The map contains author, quote, and link separately so that you can control the formatting. Requires [xml_tree].
Sample Usage
var('qotd') = quoteoftheday;
'' + $qotd->find('quote') + '
\n';
'-- ' + $qotd->find('author') + '\n';
Source Code
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define_tag(
'quoteoftheday',
-priority='replace',
-description='Returns a Quote of the Day from the QuotationsPage.com feed.'
);
local('exp') = (60 * 60 * 24);
if(!cache_exists( -name='Quote_of_the_Day', -expires=#exp));
local('quotes') = xml_tree(
string(
include_url('http://www.quotationspage.com/data/qotd.rss')
)
);
local('index') = math_random(
-lower=1,
-upper=#quotes->channel->item->size
);
local('firstquote') = @#quotes->channel->item(#index);
global('quoteoftheday') = map(
'author' = #firstquote->title->contents,
'quote' = #firstquote->description->contents->split('"')->second,
'link' = #firstquote->link->contents
);
cache_object(
-name='Quote_of_the_Day',
-content=$quoteoftheday,
-expires=#exp
);
/if;
return($quoteoftheday);
/define_tag;
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