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Design Quote Quick Script

by Dave Johnson

February 4 2011

This is some code I wrote up real quick for the footer of my website. I was using the “Straight Up” javascript from QuotesOnDesign.com however this included some very long quotes that are not really quotes at all more like essays. So I used the API instead and wrote some php that has a word limit and if it goes over then it posts a link that the user can fallow to finish reading the quote. 


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 <?php
 $jsonurl = "http://quotesondesign.com/api/3.0/api-3.0.json"; 
$json = file_get_contents($jsonurl,0,null,null);
$json_output = json_decode($json); 
$id = $json_output->id;
$quote = $json_output->quote;
$author = $json_output->author;
$permalink = $json_output->permalink;
$position=300;
if (strlen($quote) > $position){
	$post = substr($quote,$position,1);
	if($post !=" "){
		while($post !=" "){
		$i=1;
		$position=$position+$i;
		$post = substr($quote,$position,1);
		}
	}
	$post = substr($quote,0,$position);
	$post .= "...<a href=\"" . $permalink . "\">(More)</a>";
}
else{
	$post = $quote;
}?>
<blockquote id="qod-quote">
 
      <?php echo $post; ?>
 
      <a href="<?php echo $permalink ?>">
         &mdash; <?php echo $author ?>
      </a>
</blockquote>
tags: code, html, php
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