Q2 Quotes Database
There are many different ways you can access
the Q2 database:
- Random quotes; the url is
http://q2.bloople.net/r?number=x&mode=y where x is
how many quotes you want to be displayed, and mode is one of the
folowing:
- 0 prints out plaintext;
- 3 prints HTML including the html and head tags, etc. This is useful for including as an internal frame or <frame>;
- 6 prints out HTML without surrounding head etc., suitable for direct including in a webpage. Note: the quotes are printed with surrounding <p> tags;
- 8 is similar to 6, but it does not print the <p> tags;
- 12 is similar to 3, except it applies an
external stylesheet, as specified by a 'style' attribute in the url.
Example:
- r?number=50&mode=12&style=http://www.example.com/example.css
- 13 is similar to 12, except it applies the external stylesheet using div tags, and you specify the background colours for the highlighted and off backgrounds.
- 4 prints the sources line;
- 5 prints a single random quote.
Tip: modes 4 and 5 can be used in conjunction for a client application, and can be easier to use that modes 0 or 3 (you don't have to process newlines, etc.). - 7 prints out a single quote, followed (on the same line) by the url of the sources;
- 10 prints out XML, with the layout:
- <quotes>
- <quote>
- <quote>
- ...
- <sources>http://q2.bloople.net/s</sources>
- </quotes>
- <quotes>
- 17 outputs an RSS 0.91 feed.?
For example, to display 50 quotes in html, use http://q2.bloople.net/r?number=50&mode=3