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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Anonymous[/u][p]I too am  receiving the same error and made a temporary fix by changing the code see below.

The changes simply ignores the gotd.dat file (no caching) and gets the data from www.gotd.org website each time. This is not very polite as it puts extra load on their server so I'd consider this as only a temporary fix.

I think what is required to fix this problem permanently is some new code that caches to the Mysql database instead of the qotd.dat file. I'm not that profecient yet but perhaps someone else could offer the code, PLEASE:-))

Temporary Fix
==================================
function phpblock_randqotd() {
/* 
// First we check to see if a cached file exists
// Then we check to see that the file is 
// 1) not older than $randcacheexpire 
// 2) larger than 40 bytes
// We check for 40 bytes to make sure a blank file is not there, or an errorfile
// There is probally a cleaner way of doing this, and faster...
*/

if (file_exists('/path to/qotd.dat') == TRUE) {
$qotdsrc = '/path to/qotd.dat';
} else {
$qotdsrc = 'http://www.qotd.org/cgi-bin/random.cgi';
}

$blah = @fopen($qotdsrc, "r");
$retsrt = "";
if ((isset($blah)) && ($blah != false)) {
while(!feof($blah)){
$resp=fgets($blah,80);
$retstr.=$resp;
}
}

$sString = $retstr;
if (file_exists('/path to/qotd.dat') == TRUE) {
$sk = fopen('/path to/qotd.dat', "w");
$fp = fwrite($sk, $sString);
fclose($sk);
}
// Ok, lets strip out everything but the actual quote
$sString = str_replace('A HREF','A TARGET="_blank" HREF',$sString);
$sString = str_replace('[/i] -','[/i]-',$sString);
$sString = str_replace('BORDER=0ALT','BORDER=0 ALT',$sString);
$sString = str_replace('http://www.qotd.org/env.gif','/path to your theme/images/mail.gif',$sString);
$sString = strip_tags($sString, '<a><img>[b][p] ');
$sString = 'Courtesy of <a href="http://www.qotd.org/" target="_blank">qotd.org</a>: ' . $sString;
if ($debugit > 0 ){
$sString = $sString . ' ' . $filemodtime . ' ' . $filemod .' '.$currentdate.' ' .$difference;
}
return $sString;
}
//end phpblock_randqotd()>
==================================[/p][/QUOTE]

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