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[quoteoftheday]

Description

Link: [quoteoftheday]

Author: Jason Huck

Category: Utility

Version: 8.x

License:

Posted: Jul. 11, 2006

Updated: Jan. 01, 0001

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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].

Parameters

none

Sample Usage

var('qotd') = quoteoftheday;

'<strong>' + $qotd->find('quote') + '</strong><br>\n';
'-- <a href="' + $qotd->find('link') + '">' + $qotd->find('author') + '</a>\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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