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    <p>So if I understand your intent, you want to pull events from your database and pass them into the JavaScript on your page to use in your rotator:</p> <h3>In your PHP</h3> <p>Use whichever MySQL API you are using already to execute the query. Using the old <code>mysql_*()</code> functions would look like the following. (<em>Note: use of the <code>mysql_*()</code> functions is actually NOT recommended, but it seems most likely that's what you're currently using. I'll update if I find out otherwise...</em>)</p> <pre><code>// Assuming `when` is a real DATE or DATETIME data type in MySQL... // compare to CURDATE() to get today's $result = mysql_query("SELECT tag FROM events WHERE DATE(when)=CURDATE()"); if ($result) { // array to hold all the output $events = array(); while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { // Add the event to your array $events[] = $row['tag']; } // After building the array, encode it as JSON // Later you'll echo this into your JavaScript in place of the array... $events = json_encode($events); } </code></pre> <h3>Later in your HTML/JavaScript output</h3> <p>Output the JSON string (your array) into the JavaScript on your page:</p> <pre><code>function rotateEvery(sec) { // The JSON from PHP output here // Would look something like // ["Event 1","Event 2","Event 3"] var Quotations = &lt;?php echo $events; ?&gt;; var which = Math.round(Math.random()*(Quotation.length - 1)); document.getElementById('textrotator').innerHTML = Quotation[which]; setTimeout('rotateEvery('+sec+')', sec*1000); } </code></pre>
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    2. COSee [the manual](http://us3.php.net/manual/en/intro.mysql.php). They are deprecating the old mysql_*() functions in favor of the newer APIs like PDO and MySQLi, which support prepared statements for much improved security.
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