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A New Quote Script

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Submitted on: 10/8/2002 8:21:09 PM
By: Sean Murphy  
Level: Intermediate
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     Opens quotes.txt, where there is a single quote on each line, and outputs the quote in a .jpeg file. This uses GD.pm
 
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= Name: A New Quote Script
= Description:Opens quotes.txt, where there is a single quote on each line, and outputs the quote in a .jpeg file. This uses GD.pm
= By: Sean Murphy
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= Assumes:Uses GD.pm
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI::Carp;
use GD;
srand(time/$$);
my $quote = &getquote;
my $img = GD::Image->new(length($quote)*6+30,42);
my $white = $img->colorAllocate(255,255,255);
my $black = $img->colorAllocate(0,0,0);
$img->transparent($white);
$img->string(gdSmallFont,15,15,$quote,$black);
print "Content-type: image/jpeg\n\n";
binmode(STDOUT);
print STDOUT $img->jpeg;
sub getquote {
 open FILE, 'quotes.txt' or die "Can't open quotes.txt: $!\n";
 my @quotes = <FILE>;
 close FILE;
 chomp(@quotes);
 my $quote = $quotes[rand @quotes];
 return $quote;
}


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6/3/2003 2:52:34 PM

As for this quotation me who am possible to be the page of my net of my web sight that you use
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